Bless the Chef

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International Chef Day is observed all over the world on October 20 of every year. The day celebrates chefs and spreads awareness about eating healthy. Every year, a theme is decided for International Chef Day.

Unlike most other modern professions, the chef has played a significant role in our society since the beginning of time. Food is a basic need, and experiments with food have been going on for thousands of years. In the first century A.D., a Roman gourmet called Marcus Apicius wrote the world’s first cookbook. His book was named after him: “Apicius,” also known as “The Art of Cooking.” The book contains more than 400 recipes, and Marcus traveled great distances to secure the ingredients.

Auguste Escoffier, an eminent chef from France, created the brigade system and simplified kitchen dynamics in the 1870s. According to his system, each person in the kitchen had a particular task. The system worked like a military hierarchy — first, there was the head chef in charge of the whole kitchen, then the sous chef, and so on. His book “Le Guide Culinaire” is still in print and is included in the curriculum of modern culinary students due to its relevance.