The Chef's Breakfast

Cookwork Perspective: As chefs, people don't expect our breakfast to consist of soggy cereal. Read through this article to know what chefs usually have for breakfast. What's yours? Start as you mean to go on: Chefs reveal their top tips for breakfasting like a king If there's one lesson that is drilled repeatedly into us by nutritionists, it's that we should all be eating a hearty, healthy breakfast. We are certainly all familiar with the...

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Making sense – and cents – with fresh PEI mussels.

      When it comes to seafood, there’s no doubt that freshness counts big time. In fact freshness is consistently rated as one of the most important qualities that customers look for when buying or ordering seafood.  That’s where PEI mussels lead the freshness pack: these shiny blue bivalves are alive right up until the moment they are cooked and just minutes before being served. http://www.discovermussels.com/videos/chefs.html  Freshness is just one of many reasons mussels...

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Sharks Fin No More

Cookwork Perspective: The luxury hotel, Shangri-La, vows to stop serving sharks fin in all of its 72 hotels. Will you join them at this campaign? Ban on Shark Fin Soup Advances Through Asia HONG KONG—A swell of opposition against shark fin soup—a traditional but increasingly controversial Chinese dish—gained backing from the luxury Shangri-La hotel chain just days before Lunar New Year, underscoring efforts world-wide to stop the hunting and trading of the endangered fish. Shangri-La...

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RealiTV for Baristas

Cookwork Perspective: TV series is one of the best ways to attract customers for franchising. That’s why most of the establishments such as Baristas are trying to develop its own reality TV series to promote its brand and conducts auditions to cast what it refers to as “hot young girls as servers.” Is it effective to produce a reality TV to advertise a product? Baristas, the Hooters of Coffee, Tries Reality TV Baristas Coffee, a sort...

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Wearing Happiness

Whether you are an Executive Chef, a Sous Chef, a Chef de Partie or a Commis cook, you all have one thing in common -- you wear your chef uniform! Whether we like to wear it or not, it is that crisp white uniform that brings us the feeling of professionalism and pride with our work. At first glance, chef uniforms might have been the boring coat, pants, shoes, and toque. There are even some...

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