Jen Still Cooks. My life as a chef in training.
People often asked me who it was that taught me to cook. Honestly, I can’t really say. I can’t pinpoint it to one thing in particular. Sometimes I make a conscious effort to learn. On an early morning...
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Chef Life: Service, please!
We were in Spain for 9 days, and even though I had nothing to do but lay around in the sun, I was dreaming about my new job as a chef. The other night, I sent Tom into hysterics. He was awake and...
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Chef Life: So you think you can slice a tomato?
Everything I thought I knew about cooking has just changed. It’s not that I can’t cook. Or that I’ve been operating under the delusion that I am a good cook and someone’s proven me wrong. No, this is...
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Chef Life: Musing on speed and skill, plus why Bearnaise is like an abusive...
A few years ago, I bought Thomas Keller’s cookbook “The French Laundry”. I used to thumb through the pages and see photos of chefs washing freshly picked greens with sunbeams streaming through the...
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Chef Life: Kitchen War Stories
I’m currently sitting in a half empty flat in Hong Kong while the sky empties onto the city. Just a week ago, I was in London waking at 6:30am to catch a train to Sheen where I’d spend the day and...
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