Mrs. Lloyd. She said you were a good . . . cook. As indeed you are.
乐得太太。她说你是一位好的厨师。因为你的确就是。Having worked with an experienced cook for a few days, I was promised to wait tables on my own.
跟一位经验丰富的厨师一起工作几天后，我被安排去独立在餐桌边服务。I broke the news to the American couple and asked the waitress to see if the real chef could come out to receive their thanks, which he did.
我向那对美国夫妇报告了实情，并问服务员，能否让真厨师出来接受道谢。厨师出来了。Prudhomme continued to cook with a hole in his chef's coat and a cut to his arm.
Prudhomme在厨师服上有一个洞、胳膊上有一处伤口的情况下继续烹饪。The aim of a chef's work, he said, should be to make people happy through the multi-sensory experience of eating.
他说，厨师的终极目的就是发扬吃的多层次的感觉经验，去使得大众更加欢愉。He had been a chef all his life, and now, long retired, he worked a few hours in the cafeteria of a Catholic grade school.
他做了一辈子的厨师，早已退休，现在每天在一家天主教学校的自助餐厅工作几个小时。This decision gave more satisfaction to the bystanders than to the cook, but it was the only payment he could obtain.
这一裁决使旁观者大为满意，厨师虽然不满意，但他也只能得到这样的报酬了。At first, I only did pastry, because the non-Chinese were not allowed to cook hot food, but I persuaded the head chef to let me cook.
起初我只是做点油酥糕点，因为只有华裔厨师才被允许作热菜，但我设法劝服厨师长让我掌勺。Cantonese chef would consider it a culinary sin of the highest order to produce a dish that was overcooked or too heavily seasoned.
在粤菜厨师看来，食物煮的太久或口味过重都是烹饪大忌。