"I guess everyone's just tired of the grumpy old chef," Mr. Bouhadana said.
Almost every night her bespectacled old chef served him copious helpings of boiled lobster.
He held up an old chef's knife with a worn wooden handle wrapped in green tape.
Early this year, dozens of retired chefs formed the Sichuan Old Chef Traditional Artistry Society to restore time-honored ways they say are under assault.
Who wants to watch a wizened old chef!) Giada De Laurentiis, of "Everyday Italian," is not a chef, although she has culinary expertise — she was trained at the Cordon Bleu and worked as a private cook for a wealthy Los Angeles family.
This past month, the twenty-eight-year old chef published Fäviken (£35 / €45/ $49.99, Phaidon 2012, www.phaidon.com).
There are certain tasks in the kitchen (like paring, duh) that are nearly impossible for anyone but experts to accomplish with a big old chef's knife.
Slated to open this summer, the 30 year old chef will introduce Juliet, the first freestanding entity under Bread & Salt Hospitality, to his Somerville, MA neighbors.
There's no element of youthful striving (or, in fact, youth); it's become a show in which older chefs seek validation and buzzy PR.
"I was massively surprised," the 31-year-old chef says.
