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TIL: Until 2013, foreign chefs in Japan were legally barred from working in restaurants specializing in traditional Japanese food and could only serve foreign cuisine. Japan changed its regulations for foreign chefs after traditional Japanese cuisine won UNESCO designation.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 1:00 pm

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Chef’s of all status of Reddit; what is an affordable good easy meal for someone in a struggle to buy to make?

by QuestionGuy July 20, 2022, 4:07 pm

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According to a recent survey of Chefs, about 82% of them are part of the LGBT community.

by cringeyjokesman June 28, 2022, 5:46 pm

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TIL a significant part of the local economy of Kinmen County is making high quality chef’s knives from the over 1 million artillery shells fired on the island in the 1950s. Shells filled with propaganda leaflets instead of explosives landed whole, leaving tons of high quality steel lying around.

by whatilearned May 21, 2022, 1:35 pm

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TIL about Cecilia Chiang. Her San Francisco restaurant The Mandarin was highly influential in popularizing Chinese cuisine in the USA. Her son founded P.F. Chang’s, and the son of one of her restaurant’s chefs founded Panda Express.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 2:59 am

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TIL in 2017, a Pittsburgh restaurant hosted an event with French-Canadian chefs serving horse tartare. The event sparked public outrage, USDA investigation, and a petition to ban horse meat in Pennsylvania. Horse meat is a delicacy and staple throughout much of French-Canada, Europe, and Asia.

by whatilearned May 7, 2022, 2:37 am

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TIL that aside from preventing hair from falling into food, a chef’s hat also indicates their rank among the kitchen staff. Traditionally the taller the hat, the higher the rank.

by whatilearned April 28, 2022, 3:08 am

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Chefs of Reddit, what is your secret to making any dish 10x better?

by QuestionGuy March 31, 2022, 12:56 pm

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TIL the Culinary Institute of America was founded by two women, Frances L. Roth and Katherine Angell, in 1946. They created the school to compensate for the shortage of European chefs coming to the US due to WWII. Their goal was to train a new generation of American chefs to fill these roles.

by whatilearned January 29, 2022, 5:45 am

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Chefs of reddit, what dish do you hate cooking and why?

by QuestionGuy January 27, 2022, 12:05 am

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TIL: There’s a restaurant in New York that employs grandmas instead of professional chefs. Every day a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu.

by whatilearned January 24, 2022, 6:49 am

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TIL there was a conflict called the Pastry War, or the First Franco-Mexican War, which began after a French pastry chef’s shop was attacked and resulted in the French navy blockading all Mexican ports as well as seizing the city of Veracruz.

by whatilearned October 24, 2021, 2:47 am

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