silverjimmy: m-borgomani: When visiting restaurants or cafés we look through menus, chat with
silverjimmy:m-borgomani:When visiting restaurants or cafés we look through menus, chat with a waiter, sometimes with a barman or a manager. If we are constant customers of some restaurant, we certainly communicate with staff as with our good friends. We taste some dishes, discuss them with our friends. It happens that we express our enjoyment or puzzlement about taste of a dish to a manager or an owner. Or we can airily ask waiter to pass our wishes as to the food quality. But unfortunately we rarely think about the creators of these dishes, about people who have cooked them for us with love. About the chefs of our favourite outlets. They are people with their own lifestyle, their habits and interests, with their unique and certainly interesting life. With the help of my project ‘Food &Chef’, I’d like to acquaint you with them, the real artists, with those who create these beautiful dishes for us. And when you are having meal in a restaurant the next time, and understand that you are enjoying the dish, leave a note for a cook. Say ‘thank you’. It will take you only half a minute, but it will make the chef happy for the whole day.Each of these pictures has a story behind. Amazing.Okay number one: “we rarely think about the creator of these dishes"If you’re going to any restaurant with food which is crafted like all those shown (with the exception of the grandmother) then you can bet your buttons that that chef’s name is everywhere: on the menu, on the door, maybe even the name of the restaurant. Every food blog, magazine article, and newspaper review will mention the chef, probably several times: “Chef X has a subtle hand with…" “Chef X’s play of spices is…" We do hardly anything but think about the creator of these dishes.Number two, and the more problematic part of the sentence: “about people who have cooked them for us"That chef we talk so much about? That chef with his subtle hand and his play of spices and his name on the building? He’s not in the kitchen. He’s not cooking your food. He has other things to do. So guess who cooked your food? No big surprise, probably a guy with brown skin. Probably a guy from Mexico, El Salvador, Venezuela, Ecuador, or basically any other country in Central or South America.There is one man of color in these pictures, and you know what? If he’s like most chefs of color, not to mention most female chefs, he’s probably in the kitchen a hell of a lot more than all the white dudes pictured. Not to poo-poo your project, but these guys don’t need any more publicity. The people who could really use a photo project are the men and women who are actually in the kitchen. Now that really would be a photoset that would “make us think.“poor white men working in expensive restarauntslife must be so hard for them -- source link