This is the blog presentation of Richard Battista, Culinary Expert and Life Coach. This blog speaks about the organizational skills that chefs and kitchen workers display. This generation is constantly keeping up with celebrities and their lifestyles, including what they are eating. Therefore; they are following celebrity chefs and their recipes. What they should be paying more attention to is the organization of chefs and their need to be prepared and always on time. Before creating a dish, they take out only the ingredients and tools that are necessary, keep a clean space, and give a beautiful presentation. Chefs are often just as organized outside of the kitchen because this type of skill is contagious. Richard Battista has had extensive experience in the culinary and understands fully what it takes to be successful in and out of the kitchen, and organization is absolutely #1.

2. If you are seeking a more “ordered”
life, then maybe you should think
about adopting some of the
organized behaviors of a chef. In
an article by NPR, we are made
aware that Americans have been
enjoying following and eating like
celebrity chefs.

3. They have even been interacting
with them on social media
websites, like Twitter. People try
and learn as much about food and
cooking from their favorite celebrity
chefs, but could they actually learn
more from them than just food?
What about how to be more
organized?

4. According to recent research of
consumer habits, Americans have
been spending a great deal of
money, $10 million to be exact, on
self help books. This has made the
market huge and very profitable.

5. People speculate that the market is
so big because most colleges and
grad schools don’t teach their
students about organization and
how it should be used in their day
to day lives. One place that does
teach these types of life skills is in
culinary schools and in
professional kitchens.

6. One way chefs and kitchen workers
organize themselves in the kitchen
is by planning and setting out
ingredients and supplies before
they need them. This saves time
and energy for later when they
actually need the supplies.

7. The system or mantra that kitchens
use is a French phrase “mise-en-
place” translation “put in place.” It
means to the French, gathering and
placing the ingredients in an order
for cooking. However, for many
chefs and their staff in America, the
phrase has a deeper meaning.

8. They view this phrase as a way of
life and a way of “concentrating
your mind to only focus on the
aspects that you need to be
working on at that moment and to
rid yourself of distractions.” This is
according to Melissa Gray, a senior
at the Culinary Institute of
America.

9. This is a skill that many students
take with them to their daily lives
and into their work lives. For
example, after Melissa was taught
this phrase in class, she was able to
go home and reorganize her home
office in such a way that the items
she used the most were in arms
reach for her.

10. It is apparent that when you apply
organization in one aspect of your
life, it becomes natural to apply it
elsewhere. Careers as chefs and
kitchen workers are of course not
the only careers in which
organization is necessary or
executed, but it is a solid
foundation to refer to when it
comes to the day to day logic.