Cook or Chef?

[www.nooganews.com]

Ok! I have a question!

A Doctor must have several years of formal education to earn the title of Doctor.... and, an Attorney must have several years higher education and pass a bar exam to practice law....

Then why do some people who are your everyday run of the mill greasy spoon cooks instist on being addressed as a chef? I know of a local guy who has adopted the name of a famous first name of a well know chef and the surname of an author. He insists on himself being called a chef, when in fact, he had absolutely no formal culinary training whatsoever, claims he owned his own restaurant, when truth is he was a cook and two other guys were the actual owners and it was a bar, not a restaurant!

Now he has ventured once again from his cooking at a local tourist attraction, to having his own television show on a North Georgia cable station.

I may sound negitive about this certain individual, but truth of the matter is, he is no chef, but just a cook, who has had more jobs in local restaurants then Doans has little green pills!

They say any publicity is good publicity, whether it be positive or negative, so in closing, I will add his link to his first ever TV show -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDnRP6dAujM

and if I am not mistaken, we also have a copyright infrigment, he does no justice to the theme from the Partridge Family!

[bhmc449]

Well, Docs and Attorneys are a more professional title and profession. In terms of a Chef that is just reserved for person in charge of a professionally ran kitchen more or less. It's kinda like being a manager. Most managers don't have to attend school, but rise through the ranks or stand out above the rest. I think the same would apply for a Chef. Technically if you open a restaurant and start cooking you could refer to yourself as a Chef....

[LimitedRecourse]

I thought that "chef" was the position, though I wouldn't call a fry cook a chef.

[Justin Thyme]

A chef is a cook with the knowledge, skills and creativity to improvise and create his or her own dishes.

[mikeydokey]

This dude here is the man. www.jfolse.com/index.html