An increasing number of aspiring chefs are gravitating to the programs offered by the New York Institute of Technology in Islip, Suffolk County Community College in Riverhead and Nassau Community College in East Garden City.
At the same time, an increasing number of Korean chefs and restaurateurs here have aligned themselves with other nations' cuisines, to great acclaim.
Some attribute this cultural shift to the increasing number of women chefs running the kitchens of the country's top restaurants.
And yet an increasing number of hometown chefs are not only celebrating Colorado's farmers, ranchers, cheesemakers and foragers, but also growing produce and other food themselves.
Yet though language may be headed in an international direction, an increasing number of German chefs are cooking with a more native idiom, sometimes combining it with other cuisines in intriguing ways.
Anyone tracking the small chalkboard menu at Sticky Rice, the new Thai "comfort food" stand in Grand Central Market, might note the steadily increasing number of dishes from chef Johnny Lee.
Available in an increasing number of big cities, EatWith connects local chefs with strangers (i.e. you) through group dinner parties.
But having Dobbin for dinner is gaining ground with Japanese sushi chefs, Gordon Ramsay and increasing numbers of haute chefs.
Europe's chefs are flocking to Tokyo, with the Sushi Academy there seeing an increasing number of enrolments.
So are an increasing number of foreigners.
