SACR said:
schmendeler said:
Bringing up Jiro before mentioning the change to mastering a whole cuisine makes it confusing to the reader.
Who thinks sushi is one dish?
Sushi is a whole cuisine.
So how is bringing up Jiro, who has mastered a cuisine, and then asking if mastering a cuisine makes you a great chef, confusing?
It's only confusing if you think sushi is one dish, which is apparently an assumption BMX made.
His first post was literally telling you it's not one dish. Your post was poorly constructed. You went from talking about the people on Street Foods and questioning whether or not they could be considered a great chef, because they cook the same thing over and over again and then said on the other hand Jiro is considered a great chef. The delineation could have been that Jiro understands a whole cuisine (sushi) and therefore can be considered a great chef, or you could have misunderstood that sushi was tantamount to what these street vendors do and giving him as an example of a world renowned chef despite only creating one dish. Y'all are on the same page now, just accept that your post wasn't clear.
Bourdain never took a trip to Flavor Town or made a Cheesy Bacon Cheeseburger for TGIFriday's (a bacon cheeseburger with a slab of fried provolone on it). That's the difference between Fieri and Bourdain. Fieri is great at what he does, but what he does would never be confused with being intellectual. He's an infomercial for locally owned businesses, which is a great thing. He's also a caricature that Bourdain found annoying and he found his food to be the epitome of American excess, and it is.
A chef and a cook are not the same thing. A chef develops a menu, manages other cooks and generally doesn't repetitiously create the same thing over and over. A cook is like a mechanic and a chef is like a car designer and the CEO of a car company rolled into one person, both can be great at making food, but one does it at a higher, more complex, more creative level. To be a
great chef you generally have to come up with new techniques or a new approach to food, not mastering the techniques that have already been established.
So no, street food vendors, in general, won't be considered a great chef.
