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!

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.

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 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!

Cooking for your entire family seems really hard, and it is… unless you have somebody else do it for you!

In order to get our feet wet in Austin, we had to do things that were not necessarily great for the business. We had to do everything that we could think of in order for us to try to get our name out! We decided to take this on and it ended allowing us to boom!