Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards
Chef
Highly trained and responsible head cook
Cater
Provides food service for special social events
Side Worker
Does side tasks
Customers
carries the major responsibility of the hosting personnel
Two main areas of foodservice establishment
BOH, FOH
Skills to be successful in the foodservice industry
Work ethic, math reading, and measuring
Back of house
Cook(s)
Commis
Apprentice
Brigade
The order of the kitchen/system of responsibility
Sous Chef
the second in charge chef
Server
Front of house, responsible for representing the bill to the customer
Garde-manger
Responsible for cold food prep
Front of house
Serving the guests
Poor communication
Major of the staff problems
Rotisser
responsible for all roasted items and jus or other related sauces
Food miles
Distance food travels to reach the establishment
Ferran Adria
Experimental Spanish Chef, Salvadar Dalí, food futurist
Saucier
Holds one of the most demanding jobs in the kitchen, responsible for most sauces and all sautéed items
Patissier
Responsible for all baked items, supervises the boulanger
One of the things a chef shouldn’t have
An ego
When and what was the first restaurant?
1765 Monsieur Boulanger
How was Bread and French connected?
French loved bread
King of Cooks, Cook of Kings
Antonin Careme
Who designed the chef jacket?
Antonin Careme
Antonin Careme’s goal
to achieve lightness, grace, order, perspicacity, or the Grande Cuisine
Emperor of the World’s kitchens
Auguste Escoffier
Auguste Escoffier
simplified food, classified 5 mother sauces, wrote a collection of classic cuisine
Auguste Escoffier cuisine
French cuisine
What style characterized the dining style created by Careme called Grande cuisine?
the smaller size and the simpler look
Charles Ranhofer
Delmonico’s
Where is Delmonico’s?
New York
Fernand Point
went to LeCole Lenotro
What was Fernand Point’s goal?
train new and inspire chefs
What was Gaston LeNotre?
Father of modern French Cuisine
What was Alice Waters apart of?
Farm to table movement
What is a toque?
a chef hat wore by executive chef
What is fusion cuisine?
blending of different cultures
What does it take to become a professional chef?
experience, associate degree, learn the fine aspects of trade