chef
the chief cook, especially in a restaurant or hotel, usually responsible for planning menus, ordering foodstuffs, overseeing food preparation, and supervising the kitchen staff.
any cook.
Origin of chef
1Words that may be confused with chef
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How to use chef in a sentence
Even though I’m a pastry chef, the truth is that any kind of meticulous frosting job is enough to make me run from a recipe.
On the other hand, a chef with any ambition wants to put his own stamp on a place.
Tosca returns to business downtown with a fresh look and new chef | Tom Sietsema | June 4, 2021 | Washington PostThe inn’s centerpiece restaurant focuses on “coastal cuisine that’s a reflection of our location,” says Truman Jones, executive chef and director of food and beverage.
Eight road-trip-worthy restaurants in Maryland and Virginia | Nevin Martell | June 3, 2021 | Washington PostWith chefs putting vegetables at the center of the plate, the popularity of toasts in general, and our collective love of melted cheese, it just makes sense.
These irresistible veggie melts are piled high with broccoli rabe and provolone | Ellie Krieger | June 3, 2021 | Washington PostWhile I’d of course heard of chefs and home cooks alike fawning over the spring vegetable, I’d never really understood its appeal.
Rhubarb shines in this upside-down cornmeal cake | Aaron Hutcherson | June 3, 2021 | Washington Post
After the show, Executive chef Michael Franey explained the process by which the theater selects its menu.
Dinner at Nitehawk Cinema: ‘Christmas Vacation’ and a Beer in a Pear Tree | Rich Goldstein | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Japan, the master blender is the most important person in the production process and is as revered as a chef.
Watch Out, Scotland! Japanese Whisky Is on the Rise | Kayleigh Kulp | November 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI innocently wrote a letter home to my mother telling her how great the French chef was in the headquarters canteen.
I was picked up by a young chef and his wife, who were amused to find a lost English person dressed in a traditional outfit.
The ex-chef, accused by Maureen McDonnell of “embezzling” food from the mansion, went to the FBI, triggering its investigation.
Tough-Guy Pols Let Wives Take the Fall, Maureen McDonnell Edition | Eleanor Clift | August 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs usual the dinner was recherché, for the Pandemonium chef enjoyed a world-wide reputation.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsIt is the quiet chef lieu of the Allier, and was once the capital of the Bourbonnais.
She cultivated a witty habit of speech, the society of cabinet ministers, and her chef was a celebrity.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonWillis looked upon this organ as his chef d' oeuvre, saying "There is nothing like it in the whole world!"
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerIt's got everything, solar shower, automatic chef, 'copter landing—if we ever get a 'copter.
The Holes and John Smith | Edward W. Ludwig
British Dictionary definitions for chef
/ (ʃɛf) /
a cook, esp the principal cook in a restaurant
Origin of chef
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