[jerry639]

I am considered an above average cook. Would not want to be known as a Chef. I've watched too many chefs on the food network to any desire to spend 2 or 3 years in school learning how to burn up a steak on the outside while leaving practically raw on the inside.

There is a local restaurant, where it is considered the "in place" to eat because they have a chef. They fed us there when I had jury duty for a week. Some of the worst food I ever had the misfortune to eat. A sack of sandwiches from McDonald's would have been better and considerably cheaper.

[WesternCulture]

“Would not want to be known as a Chef.”

- According to the Swedish magazine Gourmet, Mario Batali some years ago stated that “a cook who calls himself a chef usually is a moron”.

I haven't been to any of his restaurants, but at least he seems like a nice person judging from what I know about this guy.