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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete – Buckminster Fuller The bottom line is that we cannot afford to wait for the industry to change. When

Our kitchen culture once taught us to compartmentalise our work and our personal lives. But we are no longer able to ignore the impact that these aspects have on each other. We now return to work without having fully unpacked the relationship

What does having a life mean for you personally?  I would not be surprised if you looked beyond the counter or the pass, to the very group of people you serve for the answer. What they are doing – enjoying a drink or devouring

Love Letters to Chefs is holding two upcoming trainings to support your return to the kitchen after our sustained absence. This past year, so much has unfolded, concluded or been placed on hold in our lives. Yet, this return feels

“To be mature you have to realize what you value most. It is extraordinary to discover that comparatively few people reach this level of maturity. They seem never to have paused to consider what has value for them. They spend

A year on from the onset of the pandemic, we have all probably built some kind of toolkit to navigate this situation. Although we are optimistic but still uncertain about how it will all be resolved, living through it has highlighted what we need to support our wellbeing. We might avoid doom scrolling

The pandemic brought into sharp focus our mythology around the self-sacrificing chef. The question we have been or should be asking is this: what was it all for? What was the point of diminishing the other aspects of our lives,

The inside of a mechanical watch perfectly represents how we can look at our work and personal lives: as two cogs linked together, with energy being transferred from one to the other. This is not how we generally tend to