Food Network's Chef Hunter with Culinary Recruiter, Carrie McCully

[Food Network Fan]

By Lori Peters








FOOD NETWORK’S CHEF HUNTER – WITH CULINARY RECRUITER

CARRIE MCCULLY

Food Network’s new docu-reality series, CHEF HUNTER features celebrity chef Recruiter, Carrie McCully. Carrie places new chefs at Michelin star restaurants around the country. She receives resumes from all over the world. Most chefs have studied at a school like the French Culinary Institute and have an extensive resume of top restaurants.


Food Network's Chef Hunter with contestant David Alvarez Photo Courtesy of Food Network

Not only is it important for a chef to create delicious meals in the kitchen, but he/she also must be able to lead a kitchen staff. A chef is like the captain of the ship and if the kitchen goes down the Executive Chef goes down with it. The Brigade organizational system of a kitchen is where each individual in the kitchen has a different task like a sous chef or a prep cook.


Chef Carlos Llaguno,Chef Hunter Host, Carrie McCully and Les Halles Owner, Phillipe Lajaunie - Photo Courtesy of Food Network

Carrie sees many candidates with different backgrounds. She says looking at resumes is just not enough. Owners don’t like to see chefs who don’t stay in one place very long. On Chef Hunter, each week,two unemployed chefs audition for a restaurant owner by cooking two proteins, one appetizer and one dessert. Carrie noted that this is a very realistic inside view of the selection process. MORE HERE

[Food Network Fan]

Have you guys been watching this? What do you think of it. It's sort of like a smaller scale more low key Hell's Kitchen. For people who like the idea of competing for a restaurants head chef position but prefer a more mellow search, I think you will like this. I mean there is an intensity to it ... just not Gordon Ramsay scale intensity.

I love Gordon, but I do enjoy this show too.