In my last article for The Staff Canteen, I looked at the bigger lessons for us behind the headlines of 2018. Two things that really stood out for me were the Netflix show The Final Table, as well as automation in
#ChefsAtChristmas: Presence
How present are you in the kitchen today, chef? Are you spending most of your time connected to the task you’re performing and the food your preparing? Or are you focussed on a past event or a future service? Because you make best
#ChefsAtChristmas: Mindset
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal – Zig Ziglar During this season we can reach a point where each day or service blurs into
#ChefsAtChristmas: Rhythm
This month we face more disruption than usual to our daily rhythms, so it’s important to do what we can to ground ourselves. One of the best ways to do that is to connect with the season (I mean winter,
#ChefsatChristmas: Success
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph – Zig Ziglar It’s just the nature of our work – we can get so focussed on the details that we sometimes forget the bigger picture. But
Chefs at Christmas 2018
For the past two years, I’ve run the Chefs at Christmas campaign during the busy season. Once again, Love Letters to Chefs will accompany you for the next five weeks with simple suggestions on how you can take care of yourself.
I’m going to MAD!
“Now, more so than ever, we must decide how to build a healthy, creative, and fair restaurant community” – the theme of this year’s MAD Symposium in Copenhagen, just a month away. I feel super privileged to have a seat
Fierceness
Wellbeing isn’t only about meditation or mindfulness or nourishment or inner peace. It’s also about fiercely guarding those life structures and activities that are important to your wellbeing. Just as the warrior outside this temple is defending all that is sacred. It’s the only way you
Your mind
When I read these words by Michael Signer in The Untethered Soul, I had to do some serious self-reflection: Just stop for a moment and see what you have given your mind to do. You said to your mind, “I want everyone
Just breathe
Would you like to take a minute to just breathe, chef? To really connect with that life force in you? Because that’s who you really are. And it’s that lovely safe space we can always return to in a moment, where nothing