Internships of Famous and Not So Famous Chefs

Many chefs, the famous and the not so famous, complete internships with professional chefs as a way of learning the skills they need in order to succeed as a professional chef. But internships provide more than cooking skills. Serving an internship under an accomplished chef provides valuable real work experience. Young chefs can learn how to lead and inspire a kitchen team or how to deal with disappointed customers.

Even the most famous chefs have completes internships on their way to the top:

• Famed chef Thomas Keller completed “estagiere” internships with Roger Verge of Les Moulin de Mougins and Bernard Loiseau of La Cote d’Or, Saulieu France.
• Chef Danny Delcambre, who was born deaf and legally blind, faced more obstacles than most chefs. But all that changed when Paul Prudhomme hired Delcambre for an internship.
• World renowned Sushi chef, Ken Kawasumi, began his first internship at the age of 16. according to Sushi or Death.
• Marc-Antoine Careme served as an apprentice chef in his teens. He studied under several master chefs of the time and became a world-renowned chef, who also did some spying on the side for the French government.
• Jacques Pepin became an apprentice at the age of 13. His memoir is entitled: “The Apprentice: My Life In the Kitchen.”
• Wolfgang Puck served an apprenticeship at L’Oustau de Baumaniere in Provence.
• Jamie Oliver served an apprenticeship at Westminster Catering College in the U.K. and is an advocate for apprenticeships, training hundreds of cooks through apprenticeships in his Fifteen restaurants.

If you are looking for an internship with an accomplished chef, apply for an internship with Chef David Gilbert.