If you have ever watched Gordon Ramsay put contestants through their paces on Hell's Kitchen, you have probably heard terms like "sous chef," "line cook," and "head chef" thrown around constantly.

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 ...

The door to Feld hides in its nook on Chicago Avenue. You could miss it in a blink. For Caroline Schrope, however, it’s the center of her Chicago. On a Thursday in June, at around 11:30 a.m., Schrope, ...