It can be quickly evaporated and superrefined, and it sells for just a few dollars, or it can be left with a lot of the minerals in it, like the good, grayish or off-white sea salts, and the rarer kinds chefs now covet.
But what kind of chef's knife to buy?
Mr. Mendes, I came to conclude, is not this kind of chef.
Every evening Mihoko will host a group at a kind of chef's table.
But it takes a certain kind of chef to stand in silence behind the big name.
He's the kind of chef who then takes a few leftover slats of American white oak from the back of that barrel and uses them to smoke a heap of fresh ricotta.
Mr. Mullen, 37, is not merely the kind of chef who wants to mount an old barrel from Vermont behind the bar so that wine and cider taps can snake through it.
In other words, David Kinch is the kind of chef who goes to extremes that we, the scrambled-eggs-for-dinner specialists of the home kitchen, can't even imagine.
When he was fourteen, he began to work as a patissier, and shortly after ward was glad to get a job as a more general kind of chef with Jean Vignard, in Lyon.
The truth is that despite being a toughie in the kitchen, I'm really the kind of chef who would always rather someone else lowered the lobster into the pot of boiling water.
