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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chef
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
celebrity chef/gardener etc
gardener/cakemaker/chef etc extraordinaire
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
executive
▪ The brand's executive chef is responsible for maintaining food quality across the estate and developing the menu.
▪ It's a long way from dirt road to executive chef, but Cimarusti has paid his dues.
▪ Thomas is executive chef and general manager.
▪ Dan Horski is the new executive chef at Muddy Rivers.
head
▪ He was previously head chef at Turner's restaurant, London.
▪ This was served buffet style from huge urns by the head chef.
new
▪ Jose Ramon, a new chef who arrived at the Guernica two months ago, will hopefully maintain these high standards.
▪ His advice to new and aspiring chefs?
▪ There will be a new chef at another sophisticated Bay Area restaurant, this one in tony Mill Valley.
▪ Finally, the Corte Madera-based California Cafe group has a new regional chef.
▪ Dan Horski is the new executive chef at Muddy Rivers.
talented
▪ The talented chef uses buckwheat soba noodles effectively.
top
▪ Read in studio One of the country's top chefs has been sampling life at the bottom ... testing school dinners.
▪ Some one who cares passionately for the quality of his ingredients is top chef Raymond Blanc.
▪ Do you know which Lisa married a top chef?
■ NOUN
celebrity
▪ Even the trendiest of today's celebrity chefs does not disdain to slosh it around.
▪ Davis deserves kudos for including celebrity chefs and lesser known regional chefs in her tough homage to the restaurant business.
▪ The Padstow seafood restaurant owned by celebrity chef Rick Stein has been fully booked since January.
▪ She fled there after splitting from celebrity chef Marco, 30, just 15 weeks after their marriage.
▪ The Canlton Food Network's celebrity chefs will have their say on the site along with organic, wine and entertaining sections.
master
▪ A society of master chefs was formed to achieve professional status similar to that of doctors or lawyers for its members.
▪ I., will resume its master chefs series in the autumn.
▪ Here passengers ate delicacies prepared by a master chef under an arched ceiling of embossed leather and oil paintings.
pastry
▪ So too is his deputy, the pastry chef and three of the waiting staff.
▪ Davis speaks to 17 restaurant professionals, from chef-owners to caterers to pastry chefs, about the restaurant business.
▪ She's been a pastry chef, a whorehouse receptionist, and a proofreader on Wall Street.
▪ She and her husband, Tom Goddard, a pastry chef, host afternoon teas and tea tastings at their shop.
▪ Now dishing up the sweet stuff at Campton Place is pastry chef Tim Nugent.
▪ It's not for nothing that Cimarusti married Christina Echiverri, a retired pastry chef now raising their new baby girl.
■ VERB
become
▪ Within six months, I became sous chef.
▪ I always figured people became chefs when they couldn't do anything else.
▪ These people train to become sushi chefs, study to become sushi chefs.
create
▪ He is sound, very sound, but in my opinion lacks the extra something that can create a maître chef.
train
▪ If they'd wanted to get on the telly they should have trained as chefs.
▪ These people train to become sushi chefs, study to become sushi chefs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
master craftsman/chef/plumber etc
▪ A society of master chefs was formed to achieve professional status similar to that of doctors or lawyers for its members.
▪ Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves.
▪ Here passengers ate delicacies prepared by a master chef under an arched ceiling of embossed leather and oil paintings.
▪ His problem was solved by Bill Bird, a master craftsman, based at Blockley in Gloucestershire.
▪ I., will resume its master chefs series in the autumn.
▪ Some became apprentices who worked beside a master craftsman to become competent in their field.
▪ The knight speaks for the landed interest, the merchant for international trade, and the capper for the working master craftsman.
▪ They work under the supervision of a Meister, a master craftsman who also is a skilled teacher.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Marco's ambition had been to become a chef in one of the big hotels.
▪ Sagin is a 31-year-old French chef living and working in Montreal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Architect, philosopher, chef - what next?
▪ He comes from the Grand Forks Country Club, where he was executive chef since 1996.
▪ How many times have i nearly wept at the destruction of delicate little scallops at the hands of ignorant or insensitive chefs?
▪ My chefs are preparing dinner and we are interrupting their work.
▪ Nowhere else in the world, the chef confided, could he have the freedom to create such a banquet.
▪ The chefs prepare your selections as you order them so they're served piping hot.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chef

Chef \Chef\, n. [F.]

  1. A chief or head person.

  2. The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

  3. (Her.) Same as Chief. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chef

"head cook," 1830, from French chef, short for chef de cuisine, literally "head of the kitchen," from Old French chief "leader, ruler, head" (see chief (n.)).

Wiktionary
chef

n. 1 The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household 2 The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment 3 Any cook

WordNet
chef

n. a professional cook

Wikipedia
Chef

A ' chef' is a highly trained and skilled professional cook who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation of a particular cuisine. The word "chef" is derived (and shortened) from the term chef de cuisine , the director or head of a kitchen. Chefs can receive both formal training from an institution, as well as through apprenticeship with an experienced chef.

There are different terms that use the word chef in their titles, and deal with specific areas of food preparation, such as the Sous-chef, who acts as the second-in-command in a kitchen, or the Chef de partie, who handles a specific area of production. The Brigade system is a system of hierarchy found in restaurants and hotels employing extensive staff, many of which use the word chef in their titles. Underneath the chefs are the kitchen assistants. A chef's standard uniform includes a hat called a toque, necktie, double-breasted jacket, apron and shoes with steel or plastic toe-caps.

Chef (South Park)

Jerome "Chef" McElroy was a cartoon character on the Comedy Central series South Park who was voiced by soul singer Isaac Hayes. A cafeteria worker (as his nickname implies) at the local elementary school in the town of South Park, Colorado, Chef was generally portrayed as more level-headed than the other adult residents of the town and sympathetic to the kids. His guidance was often sought by the show's core group of child protagonists – Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick – as he was usually the only adult whom they consistently trusted. To an inadvertent fault, he would frequently give inappropriate advice, usually in the non sequitur form of a lascivious soul song.

Chef was inspired by Hayes and other popular soul singers of the 1970s, as well as an actual dining hall worker encountered by series co-creator Trey Parker while he attended the University of Colorado. Chef played a less prominent role as the series progressed beyond its earlier seasons, and the character was killed off at the beginning of the tenth season in " The Return of Chef" following the controversial departure of Hayes.

Chef (disambiguation)

A chef is a person who cooks professionally.

Chef or The Chef may also refer to:

Chef (software)

Chef is both the name of a company and the name of a configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang. It uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration "recipes". Chef is used to streamline the task of configuring and maintaining a company's servers, and can integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Internap, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack, SoftLayer, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace to automatically provision and configure new machines. Chef contains solutions for both small and large scale systems, with features and pricing for the respective ranges.

Chef (company)

Chef is an American corporation headquartered in Seattle, Washington, which produces software allowing information technology departments to automate the process in which they configure, deploy and scale servers and applications.

The Chef software is used to streamline the task of configuring & maintaining a company's servers, and can integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Rackspace and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to automatically provision and configure new machines.

About 70% of Chef’s clients come from Fortune 1000 companies, including major organizations like Facebook, Nordstrom, Disney, and General Electric.

The company was founded as Opscode in 2008 by current Chief Technology Officer Adam Jacob, Jesse Robbins, Barry Steinglass, and Nathan Haneysmith. Chef is based in Seattle, with regional offices in Atlanta, North Carolina, London, and Silicon Valley. Chef is a venture funded company, as of Sep 2015 Chef is valued at $360 million after a $40 million funding round.

In November 2015, the company acquired a German security startup, VulcanoSec.

CHEF (defunct)

CHEF was a radio station that operated at 1450 kHz on the AM band in Granby, Quebec, Canada.

Chef (magazine)

Chef (meaning Manager in English) is a Swedish language monthly management and business magazine published in Stockholm, Sweden.

Chef (film)

Chef is a 2014 American comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Jon Favreau, and co-starring Sofía Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Oliver Platt, Bobby Cannavale, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Downey, Jr. Favreau plays a professional chef who, after a public altercation with a food critic, quits his job at a popular Los Angeles restaurant and returns to his home town of Miami to fix up a food truck. He reconnects with his ex-wife and invites their young son to join him in driving the truck back to L.A. while selling Cubanos in various cities along the way.

Favreau wrote the script after directing several big-budget films, wanting to go "back to basics" and to create a film about cooking. Food truck owner and chef Roy Choi served as a co-producer and oversaw all of the menus and food prepared for the film. Principal photography took place in July 2013 in Los Angeles, Miami, Austin and New Orleans. Chef premiered at South by Southwest on March 7, 2014 and was released theatrically on May 9, 2014 by Open Road Films. It grossed over US$45 million at the box office and was well received by critics.

Usage examples of "chef".

Luckily, they brought the prince his dinner, which had been ordered beforehand somewhere in the vicinity by Lambert and Alphonsine from a remarkable French chef who was now unemployed and looking for a position in a club or an aristocratic household.

Gypsy ways than the Chef de Bohemiens a Triana, one who is an expert whisperer and horse-sorcerer, and who, to his honour I say it, can wield hammer and tongs, and handle a horse-shoe, with the best of the smiths amongst the Alpujarras of Granada.

Le Bamboche, in the Seventh, owned by the fine young chef David Van Laer, who first became well known at the cutting-edge haute-cuisine restaurant Apicius.

Sadducee, his secretary, that he wished to have it and direct him to send the invitations from List Number One and then to tell Bibby the same thing and to order the chef to serve Dinner Number Four--only to have Johannisberger Cabinet instead of Niersteiner.

No offense to the famous chef and his touch with butterfat in all of its glorious manifestations.

Not surprisingly, the pastry chef had already started in on his daily stock of fruit tarts and millefeuilles, his cream puffs and eclairs, his multi tiered gateaux, and his signature swans of choux pastry.

This was even worse than preparing choux pastry in front of Maitre Chef Duxelles at the Cordon Bleu in Paris.

And, though women were scarce in Deadwood, she suspected he could find a few ran chef daughters in the surrounding territory who would be plenty happy to give him their company for nothing.

She stayed with him as they threaded their way past white-coated chefs in tall white hats rushing to and fro between stoves, ovens and countertops, dinnerware and pots clinking and clanging.

Les guerriers qui y reposent etendus, avec leurs armes, furent sans doute des chefs illustres parmi les peuples.

Ricky Zed, although his employers at the West Ealing Wimpy Bar, where he worked as the griddle chef, knew him as Kevin Smith.

As their limousine pulled into line to await its turn, Kit imagined the scene at the start of the Mauve Decade when the Jerome had been modern and new, when its Eastlake decor had been the height of fashion, when its elevator, its electric lights, its hot and cold running water, its indoor plumbing, and its French chef were the talk of the town.

Her fork balanced in a firm hand, Pristine studied the entree, turned it this way and that in the manner of an inquisitive coroner, then, resigned that the chef could come no closer to her ideals, speared, chewed, and reluctantly swallowed.

Finally, upon the advice of my cousin, chief of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai, I had my wife committed to the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Institute of Psychiatry.

Pierre LaManche, the chef de service for the medicolegal section at the crime lab in Montreal.