Professional kitchens around the world are modelled on a top-down, military-inspired system invented by a French chef in the ...

If you're familiar with the culinary arts, you've probably heard about the kitchen brigade system. Originally developed by French chef and culinary icon, Georges-Auguste Escoffier, a kitchen ...

For Ripert, the chef de cuisine, “has total control, from a managerial perspective, of the food that enters and leaves the kitchen.” ...

Chefs were deities of their own imagination behind the kitchen doors, and they trained others in the manner they'd been shown. This mentality can be traced back to the brigade system's ...

The brigade system ensures that food gets to the plate looking pretty; it also gives free range to rage-inclined pricks to indulge their worst impulses. The anger was like black mold in the air ...

The steaming chaos and viciously hurled epithets of such reality shows as “Top Chef” and “Kitchen Nightmares” thankfully have no place in “Kitchen Brigade,” which sees a gifted chef ...

If you get a chance to observe the back of house in a restaurant during a busy dinner rush, you’ll notice a system, whether the kitchen is serving 30 or 10,000 people.