Chapter 1 A Chef’s Role Arthur studied the menu in front of him I’m so hungry he said I could eat everything on this menu Well you can’t order everything Arthur’s mom said with a laugh But there are so many good choices here Arthur was out to dinner with his mom and dad They were eating at their favorite Mexican restaurant I’ll have the chicken tacos with guacamole Arthur told the waiter Can I also have rice and beans on the side Of course replied the waiter He collected the menus after Arthur’s parents ordered I’ll be back soon with your dinner He hurried to the kitchen with the order The kitchen staff began to prepare a delicious meal for them 4 21st century skills library
A full meal at a restaurant might include many different foods Tacos are a popular Mexican food 5 5
Chefs need to make sure the food looks appealing on the plate 6
No matter what kind of restaurant you visit there are people working hard in the kitchen to prepare tasty food The restaurant business is a 683 billion industry One out of every 10 American workers is in the restaurant business The chef of the restaurant is in charge of most of these employees and works hard to make sure everything goes smoothly 21st Century Content Years ago most of the chefs in top American restaurants were men But this is no longer the case More and more women are becoming chefs A lot of jobs have tough schedules A lot of jobs are physi cally demanding said Lauren DeSteno a chef in New York Nurses work weird hours Police officers have hard jobs You deal with it Today up to 50 percent of the culinary staff is female This is a much higher number than it was 10 years ago More women are also graduating from the top culinary schools At the Culi nary Institute of America female graduates rose from just 21 percent in 1992 to 36 percent today In a good kitchen male and female really doesn’t matter anymore DeSteno concluded 77 COOL VOCATIONAL CAREERS
