im flipping through the dailies. thursday pdi lifestyle is about eating and more eating. and chefs, chefs and more chefs. this metropolis is churning out "chefs" like diplomas in recto before.
certainly, lifestyle media have driven this. it is another route to celebrity status (much like show business and sports/athletics). and the fact that a lot of them also happen to be extremely good looking did not happen by chance.
even talking to PLU acquaintances, a lot of the young ones dream of becoming chefs. and a few old ones who are rethinking their careers. eto talaga hilig ko, magluto
you may detect the negative tone. well, only as an ordinary Juan who thinks that there's just too many of them. and all of them seem to do the same things (their dishes look interchangeable. hehe)
but on the economics of it... it really should be very good for us Filipinos. there must really be a penchant for the kitchen in our collective genes (much like karaoke). and it is another 'exportable' talent. this particular 'skilled labor' category oversupply will bring down their cost. actually, this is their ticket towards enterpreneurship.
i guess in the long run, as they truly professionalize, there will be a way to really highlight the great ones from the good. and those would be the one that would really deserve 'celebrity status'.
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after-effect ata yan ng jewel in the palace...hehe
haha. kim sam soon ba yung isa?
There is a proliferation of cooking/chef schools, an effect of the demand for learning the culinary arts, if that's what you can call it. First, these are not diploma schools so they do not get the Bachelor's degree like going to a regular college. This means that education standards are lower and students were probably not accepted into the regular college. This makes me question their right to carry the "chef" title. Unfortunately, there is no qualification exam where you can rightfully tack on titles like engineer, attorney, architect and doctor. Second, aren't most of the student or chefs just waiting for application to pull through in a hotel abroad or in some luxury cruise liner? Third, opening a restaurant seems like the easiest going-into-business route. Spoiled rich kids do it all the time.
hi steve. some of the schools actually give out baccalaureate degrees in culinary arts! certainly it is not recognized as a 'profession' yet here... thanks for the inputs!
wouldn't it be great if all these chefs decided to have small carts each having a specialty along many of the parks and plazas after 5? i could eat the food and hopefully the chefs too!
sana may chef na maganda ang katawan..ahahahah!as in 6 pack abs and all.. kaya kaya nila yun? ahahaha
that would be a chef festival... or chef tiangge, depending on your perspective! chefs as part of the buffet? visit fitness first. JOKE! thanks, anonymous one!
im sure mayroon niyan, dyakks!! they probably are the healthy gourmet types!
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