chefwear

When I dropped by to see him recently, passing first through his stylishly sparse sixty-five-seat dining room, past his four sommeliers – count them, four – through a kitchen staffed by serious- looking young Americans in buttoned-up Bragard jackets with the Veritas logo stitched on their breasts and chefwear MC Hammer pants, down a flight of stairs, I found him wrapping a howitzer-sized log of foie gras in cheesecloth.

2000, Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 257–258

Emerilware and cutlery, cookbooks, specialty food products, chefwear, and more

2003, Emeril Lagasse, From Emeril’s Kitchens: Favorite Recipes from Emeril’s Restaurants, William Morrow, →ISBN

There has been, however, something of an apron revival—modern chefwear catalogs feature clogs, chef’s pants, and serious aprons.

2006, Bonny Wolf, Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 72

A smart City branch of the established Soho business, specialising in chefwear and footwear.

2013, Jenny Linford, Food Lovers’ London, →ISBN, page 341

One number directly alluded to that show’s “Butter and Egg Man,” with three men in chefwear vying for the attention of a female singer.

2015, Brian Seibert, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 531