This term is derived from the phrase chef de cuisine, French for ‘chief, or head, of the kitchen’. It refers in English to a professional cook in a hotel or restaurant, especially to the head chef, or senior chef on duty. Arthur Hailey, in...

Chef is a term commonly used to refer to a person who cooks professionally. Within most restaurants however, the term is more highly defined. In a professional kitchen setting, the term is used only for the one person in charge of everyone else in the...