Hiring a chef in Austin, Texas is about to be a whole lot easier and we want to thank each and every single one of you for choosing Gather and Forge for your chef needs. Without all of you, we would still be stuck in restaurants getting underpaid and overworked. If you are thinking about hiring a private chef in Austin, read this blog to see how far we have come!

When we are building it is hard to take a step back and reevaluate where you came from. Building a personal chef business is tough and takes a ton of moving pieces to make it work the right way. Here is my thank you to the team that makes it happen.

This read is for the person who's never been in a professional kitchen before but is considering entering the profession or beginning (as well as finishing) culinary school. This is a reality check as well as a source of knowledge from experience that I would have appreciated reading before beginning down this path myself.

Food journalist Michael Pollen has transformed the public’s awareness and perspective concerning what we eat and the implications these choices carry over time. This article picks apart the vicious cycle of the procurement of processed foods and the unhealthy effect it has on us and more importantly, the environment.

I write this because when I started cooking, I often wondered if anybody out there had taken the time to share what they had learned to make this game easier, or more efficient, or less painful. I write this to share what I have learned and what I've passed onto my co-workers either passively or intentionally. The same tenets here apply to the barista, as well as to any skilled chef.

This classic cooking oil of Ethiopia is a great thing to use whenever you want to give something a more complex North African or Middle Eastern Flavor. It is also a primary ingredient (along with the spice mixture berebere) of Ethiopian cooking.

The chef's knife is the most important tool in the kitchen. The home cook, line cook, or executive chef should take pride in having their tools perform at peak performance.  Not only is it disrespectful to the ingredients to use a knife as dull as a baseball bat, but there is nothing more dangerous than a dull knife. I've seen a coworker stab straight through the fleshy part of his hand from a miscalculation with a knife dulled by animal fat and sinew. This knowledge matters.

We always try to go back to the basics! We have to remember that we have been cooking for more than 10,000 years!

When In started my business almost 4 years ago here in Austin, Texas I never knew what it would eventually become. Although Austin is in the midst of a boom, I never in a million years thought that I would become so busy that I would have more clients than I know what to do with.

We all wish to be a personal chef. Is it that hard to break into and what is it like when you are “going through the motions” of being a personal chef? Let’s chat about it!

You have to read this if you are thinking about having a dinner party in Austin! This was for a bachelorette party that we did this past summer!

Have you ever wanted to stuff a whole fish? Or have you ever tried a stuffed whole fish? YOU HAVE TO!