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Maybe like Aarón and Trine, you also love to cook. Even if you’ve never thought about becoming a chef, a love of cooking just might be the first step to a rewarding culinary career! However, you’ll need a lot more than just a passion for preparing food in order to become a successful chef. COOKING UP SUCCESS Chefs are key members of a restaurant’s staff. They prepare imaginative and tasty dishes for customers who are enjoying a night out. Chefs are different from cooks at home because they’ve had training and lots of practice—and they get paid for making food. You may not have seen many chefs in your life because they usually work behind the scenes. You’ll find them in the kitchens of many restaurants or at

Cooks make most of the food we eat on a regular basis—hamburgers and fries, pancakes and omelets, and chicken noodle soup and chili.

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