Personal Chef

Personal chefs, also known as personal cooks, are professionally trained culinary experts who prepare meals for individuals and households on a longterm, daily basis. Depending on the needs of their clients, personal chefs prepare either one, two, or three full course meals a day for the individuals or households they're servicing, and generally work out of the kitchen of the home they're servicing. Though personal chefs are culinary experts trained in a wide variety of gourmet dishes, they may specialize in one specific type of cuisine, such as Mediterranean, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, among others. A personal chef's main responsibility is to create meals which are delicious, while at the same time balanced and nutritious. Personal chefs who do fulltime work for clients need to make especially sure that their client's daily intake of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and other nutritional aspects are all being met, and also that their standards of food preparation are among the finest in the culinary industry. Personal chefs must be able to respond to the likes and dislikes of their clients, able to take feedback, and prepare meals for their clients based upon their preference of taste, while at the same time trying to choose and create meals which are high in nutrition and low in calories.