I want to be a #Chef.
Naveen Vaishnav (He/Him)
General Manager (5 Star Hotel) | Hotelier since 2001 | Specializing in luxury, education, training & entrepreneurship | Expert in financial forecasting and deployment strategies
My intentions through this post is not to discourage the young aspirants who wish to make a career in culinary industry, but to share some of my insight knowledge as too what is seen is not always right. As it's a profession where you face both the heats equally, heat of fire and heat of guest/senior Chefs.
With the mushrooming of the hotel industry the Hotel management college have also grown up in numbers, these colleges promising a bright 5 star career in the hotel industry and showing the faces of established Chefs in India.
This is true and pity that these colleges, shows the achievement of established Chef's their lifestyle, their #TV shows, their earnings and does not show that how many years of hard work and rejections made them CHEF.
Everyone can cook food, but only a few can put taste and that only come through #PATIENCE. If a #tea takes 3 minutes of time to brew and #breadbake in 30 minutes, if cut short and loose patience may be someone will eat that bread or drink the tea but will not come back again.
CHEF is not just a title or profession, it's a #LOVE & #PASSION towards cooking, that has too be natural. If you do not aim in creating experience every-time you cook, you will not last long.
Advice to #students who aims to be a CHEF, do your own research first, read the life of great chef how they have earned their respect over ages. See the infrastructure of the college do they have enough trained teacher Chef's to teach you right skills, sometime even a smallest college with right Chef Teacher will move your career up.
Do not learn through #YouTube video use them as reference, #Google is a good reference but not everything on google is correct. Visit places, learn your regional cuisine first, keep the curious mind open to ask as many #WHY you can there is a logic and answer for everything. Do not run for money for the first 3 years on job, its pity but #India is a big country with lot of people above you and below you who will manipulate and present things to you, if you have passion your hard work will pay one day.
Be #Inspired & mark your progress everyday, many #Lady chefs are making their way up in Culinary world and our own #Indian chef #GarimaArora is the first #MichelinStar
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