Would you want to work here? FARMBloomington, a farm-to-table restaurant in Bloomington, Indiana posted a job on Craigslist for a line cook position in a kitchen that sounds like from hell. The ad ...

This wasn’t coming from a server nor a line cook, but a trailblazing chef who donned a dead pig like a mink stole for the cover of her best-selling book. If silence was an ingredient in her epochal ...

Facing a labor shortage, restaurants are turning to on-demand services for line cooks, dishwashers and other trained workers. By Matthew Sedacca and David Yaffe-Bellany As he wrapped up a brunch shift ...

Monica Burton is the former deputy editor of Eater.com where she covered restaurants and food culture from 2017 to 2025. Before the novel coronavirus crisis reached America, Samuel Prieto was working ...

Brennan Villarreal started the great pandemic year working as a line cook in a restaurant. He ended it the same way. That in itself is no mean feat at a time when the industry shed more than 2 million ...

In “Kitchen Confidential,” the book that launched Anthony Bourdain’s writing career, he explained that his subject was “street-level cooking and its practitioners.” Line cooks—the people actually ...

Restaurant Diaries is a weekly series featuring four different people working in the industry. Each week, you’ll hear from one of them, from a farmer in Winters, California, to a wine educator in ...