Passion or Fashion

I am still focusing on food and chefs. I got a chance this time around to interview a professional chef and is also a teacher at Hoerskool Bergvlam via a telephonically interview and my first question was why did she choose to go for cooking as a profession because there were better careers to choose from and I quote “I am a very artistic person so I wanted to show ma artistic skills with food so I went for it.” The other thing that Mrs Britz said that u really need to have respect food before you work with it first than after that comes the  understanding and what food requires . My second question I askes was about the passion that she has or it just all about the money she wants to make? “Passion she said”.Chefs cook for alot of people not just cooking for their families. Chefs cook because they want to sell the organisations or they do it because they enjoy being in the kitchen. It requires a lot of hard work and dedication to be a professional chef but other people do not have enough knowledge about cooking and skills. Cooking shows are as a form of communicating a message to the target audience and their intention is to sell the food and also learn one or two tricks about cooking and being a chef, it is not as easy as it looks. If you do not like all the ingredients that the chefs uses in a certain dish than you have all the right to change it and be creative as it is said that it is also a form of art. Yes it is true that we all want money but some people think that chefs do not make a lot but some other chefs love their jobs so much that they would never stop to cook or do anything that relates to food. It does not end there, some have their own restaurants, write books and lecture at Institutions too.

How to recognise a professional chef:

Chef’s jacket must have black buttons.

Usually assist junior chef.

Chef’s jacket is usually designed differently.

For further reading and information about chefs and the academies go to www.cheftraining.co.za

Cooking for Professionals

Cooking can really be a way to relax and decrease stress levels but for others there is more to cooking and take the professional route , becoming a chef. Masterchef is back on the screens and more publicity for professional chefs and junior showcasing their skills and talent given the opportunity to improve their skills and show how food can be very interesting. The television programmed is watched by many and uses celebritiers as judges.It has found a new angle to get to thier target audience using television to send and educate people about food, it gives chefs the exposure to them and the food also, gets more popular. The programme highlights the skills the chefs have and who would have thought that South African chefs can haveso much skills and be passionate about food until you watch Masterchef. Food is exposed abd it is so amazing what one thing or type of food can do for example ,most people think rice is just used for the main course meal but it can be also used to make dessert. I wonder if chefs also cook at home or just do it for television. Do they also go all outwhen cooking for thier families





Chefs also specialize in different sectors, have interest in types of food and specialize in it . I would think it is a talent but other people love food  and end up going to study so they become professionals. There are terms used to refer to certain chefs : Chef de cuisine is a chef that is responsible for the menu creation and will therefore have a helper that is referred to as the Sous chef and the Demi chef is similar to the senior shef and the chefs that interest me the most and I call them the sweet chefs are Pastry chefs because they work with chocolate and bread ofcourse....Also get chef de Saucier,Passonier and Rotisseur. Its all for the love of food

four seasons

we have to compliment the people that make food look so beautiful and eye catching for us to buy and what our taste buds will get to taste different types of food and am i talking about? the professional chefs ofcourse. Food is very broad and some of the chefs specialize in different catergories in the food industry,they make look so good that when you look at it u just want to buy. As the seasons change so does the food change because there are certain foods that are found in specific seasons and it available to people. If we look at marketing the food is marketed and sold to people using television for example so people can see what is available at the markets and stores. There is two types of catorgories and that is warm food that mostly serve in winter and cold food for summer, some resturants have meals according to seasons because they know what the customers need. It is winter now so food that you can look forward to eat at home or resturants can be soups,baked potatos and have a warm dessert like custdard. Adverts on can so attractive but if you want to have good food do not stress out but just a simple cook book and try it at home and i mentioned that buying your own food cn help save more money than you can imagine. for examlpe.
A simple home made soup:
carrots
potatoes
onions
mince
peppers
spices
All this ingridients will give you the best soup but because of the adverts on television they convince you that the only best soup you can get is at Mikes kitchen and persue to agree with them and the only soup you want is from their resturant . Their aim is just to sell their image and have a relationship with the people , the more people go to eat there the more publicity they get. What food needs is to play around with it and coming up with your recipes but do not just mix anything together cause you might get cross contimination and get sick.....Try make something this season.