Cooking Tips from Professional Chefs on Chef2Chef.net's "Ask A Chef!" Forum
(PRWeb) February 12, 2007 -- Interest in cooking as a hobby and as a career is on the rise, thanks in part to the popularity of cooking and reality TV shows. The "Ask A Chef!" feature at Chef2Chef.net offers a wealth of cooking advice, including free online recipes, cooking techniques and menu planning. Chef2Chef.net is a chef's practical guide to practically everything, and has features useful to culinary students, professional chefs and food lovers alike.
"Ask A Chef!" is a free forum that allows those interested in food as a hobby or career to get cooking advice in a variety of areas and access a recipe database. Recent questions on the forum ranged from "what is truffle oil?" to suggestions for cooking quinoa (http://forums.chef2chef.net/).
To meet the educational demand of foodies and culinary hobbyists, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of both formal and informal culinary training programs is on the rise. "Formal programs, which may offer training leading to a certificate or a 2- or 4-year degree, are geared more for training chefs for fine-dining or upscale restaurants. They offer a wider array of training options and specialties, such as advanced cooking techniques; cooking for banquets, buffets, or parties; and cuisines and cooking styles from around the world."
The "Ask A Chef!" forum is an online community that allows users to receive practical cooking advice, access free online recipes, get help with menu planning and offer encouragement and support to each other. Having access to professional chefs can help students and other food lovers become informal mentors. Chefs of all levels of experience can take their food preparation skills to the next level by exchanging cooking tips and techniques (http://forums.chef2chef.net/).
Chef2Chef.net has more tools and resources to help aspiring chefs, such as a culinary glossary and nutrition information. Other resources include book reviews and chef blogs. Jobseekers can view current job openings and receive job alerts.
Chef2Chef.net, a chef's practical guide to practically everything, offers user forums, a searchable database of recipes and a comprehensive U.S. directory of top culinary schools and institutes. Culinary students, professional chefs, and culinarians can also find the latest food industry news, a job search section and a marketplace for culinary supplies and equipment.      
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