Chefs are artists

Finding balance doesn’t always have to be intentional, chefs. It can also come from things you do anyway – a joke shared with your team, five minutes of quiet before service starts, stepping away for a few seconds from a

I will tell you this much about the Camino: with one focus, few distractions and all those solitary moments, you come into close contact with your emotions. I mean real close contact. You go through quite a range everyday: frustration, impatience, anger,

When you’re feeling anxious or concerned about your finances, you can feel very disconnected from prosperity. We tend to associate it with a number – whether it’s your bank balance or how much you carry in your wallet. But it goes beyond that

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison had these wonderful words to say about artistic vision in her interview with Granta Magazine: ..but I think an artist, whether it’s a painter or a writer, it’s almost holy. There’s something about the vision,

I found this book at my friend’s home in Vienna; I’m sharing it with some excitement because I see so many parallels here between chefs and artists. I don’t speak German, but I can guess that on the cover is

Are you aware of the lengths that the artists of old went to in order to bring life to their work? From toxic substances to animal bones, from precious gemstones to insects – all were highly prized because only these pigments could impart the

I took some time off yesterday to ponder this dilemma that I encountered in my mind: should chefs be artists? In saying that that’s part of the Love Letters to Chefs mission, am I asking chefs to be something they

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it – Michelangelo I can vividly recall one occasion in the kitchen when I was asked to do a fruit plate. In the build-up

Last Saturday we talked about curating art and design ideas that inspire you, but how do you sharpen your connection to that inspiration? In a profession in which we learn largely by seeing and doing, this is a crucial skills for

Last Saturday’s post was all about simple things you can do to broaden your artistic abilities. Would you agree that it’s not too difficult to soak up ideas from other art forms? But that’s only the first part. What’s next is