In the kitchen, most chefs wear a number of different figurative hats, easily bounding between stirring, mincing and other cooking tasks. But chefs only wear one actual hat, and that’s an important distinction. That’s because the hat a chef wears says a lot about who they are, their style, their level of expertise and so much more. If you’re still in the middle of a culinary arts program, now is the perfect time to see just what hat you may one day end up donning: It’s called a what? A chef’s hat is officially called a toque, which is Arabic for hat. While the term has existed for a few thousand years, the French popularized the word when referring to a chef’s hat, according to Culinary Anyone. By the 1800s, the hat became known as the toque blanche, or white hat. So, why was white chosen? As the legend goes, the personal chef of Charles Talleyrand, who served […]