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How do you find a fair personal chef? Are there associations or companies that provide personal chefs? Yes - despite the fact that the essential thing is the quality of the chef. If you want someone to cook a special meal, it does not matter where you found your chef. Whether you find your chef through the yellow pages or web pages from an association or independent contractor, focus on what matters the food. You can find the chefs through a web search or the yellow page. Many of the chefs can be removed from your list that way. If the web page does not contain a sample menu or it does not impress you, move on to the next one. The top way to choose a personal chef is through the interview and the tasting. These individuals are using the title of chef so yes, the entirety about their cooking should impress you even the menu. Be picky. When you interview the chef, have him or her provide menu suggestions. If you want something that would be served at the spaces top restaurants - the menu is the first sign of quality. Ask where they'll be getting the wines. Ask where they'll be getting the produce. Ask where they'll be doing the cooking. Most chefs will supply numerous services.
If you are celebrating a special occasion, or just want to have a fair meal in a relaxed setting, hiring a personal chef for an evening is a very good option. The big question is how do you find a fair personal chef? Normally, I would suggest word of mouth. That works for maids, mechanics, and hairstylists. The contact information for personal chefs is rarely given out. Why plan a special meal with a personal chef, if the chef is not on hand because you have given out his or her contact data to all your friends. Why risk missing an incredible Christmas dinner prepared by a personal chef - because your good friend has hired the chef rather.
Copyright 2006 Andrew Horan
Why should you hire a personal chef? Imagine just being able to enjoy the most dazzling meal of your life.
It is a special day. You want to verify the entirety is perfect for the romantic meal you are planning tonight. You make one phone call and then, reassured, go back to work. When you get home, your other 1/2 is waiting for you in the living room. On the espresso table are two martinis and two appetizers. The first one is lemon and saffron chicken brochettes. The moment one is wild mushrooms, garlic, and thyme bouchees. You know the soup course, classic vichyssoise, is in the works. The salad course will soon follow. The baby leaf salad with roasted pepper and black olive drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette is your favorite. You sit down, take your shoes off, and pick up the martini. While you relax, you smell the major course of seafood raqut with lobster, scallop, shrimp and mussels in a champagne infused tomato sauce. The rice pilaf and vegetable ratatuie will accompany the major course.
Couples have different reasons for turning to the personal chefs. For some, hours stuck in the gridlock of their commute have made going back out into traffic for a meal at a fair restaurant unbearable. For those people, the benefit of hiring a personal chef to organize a meal is irresistible. For others, the stress of preparing those big break meals for large numbers of break friends is a stress that they can do without. What are any other options? You can spend hours stuck in a kitchen or you can organize the trip out to the closest restaurant. Preparing a dinner for large numbers of people is no small feat. Bringing your friends to a cafe on a break requires reservations, transportation, and other drawbacks. Others prefer to enjoy a romantic meal at home without complications. Whatever reason, Washington region couples are turning to the personal chef and they are keeping it quiet. Why? You would possibly hear rumors that your neighbors had a meal catered or someone must have taken some cooking courses. However, you will not hear that your neighbors are using a personal chef. Couples are hoarding the names of the good personal chefs. What use is having the wide variety of a personal chef, if you can't use it when you want? With holidays or special occasions always coming up, no security clearance is high enough to be trusted with the contact information of your favorite personal chef.
You can look at s despite the fact that you can't eat words. What matters most is the food and the professionalism. Please understand that these individuals spend their lives working with food. They are food geeks so do not be put off by their enthusiasm for food topics. Enthusiasm is an unproven criterion. If the chef seems to be as interested in your meal as you are, that is a fair sign, despite the fact that only a sign.
Do you want the meal served on the finest china? Some personal chefs will provide china, crystal, and whatever is needed.
So what happens after you hire the personal chef? Imagine eating a romantic meal at home and being able to be romantic after it's far over without worrying about the dirty dishes. Imagine splitting a bottle of wine at dinner and not having to worry about whom will be the designated driver.
Do you want that special someone to think that you prepared the meal? Some personal chefs will drop off the food.
The personal chef is not just for the super rich anymore. Many Washington region couples are finding that it's far easier to call a personal chef then to venture out to their favorite restaurants. The food, the service, and the cost of a dinner prepared by a personal chef rivals meals prepared at the spaces finer restaurants.
Sure maybe you could have prepared this meal, despite the fact that you know that you would not be sitting down now enjoying your first mouthful of brochette without worrying about the next courses. Once you made that phone call from your office, you knew that the entirety would be perfect. Instead of spending hours planning the meal, buying groceries at several different markets, and locked in your kitchen cooking and digging up your fine china, you made one phone call. It was to the personal chef whom you hired to organize your meal. He has experience working in restaurants in Europe, the U.S., and the Caribbean. His services include the entirety from menu consultation to food preparation to serving and finally the clean up. When your personal chef leaves, the kitchen is spotless, the dinner table cleared, and you can enjoy the leisure of your evening without worrying about the traffic on your way home.
After you have asked the full questions you can think to ask, the only thing that in point of fact matters is the food. Ask for a sample. If anything does not impress you, move onto the next chef. Remember a fair chef will tailor his menu and services to your dinner, not any other way around.
