Chef's PSA

23/09/2026

In a recent episode of Chef’s PSA with Matt Lambert we talked about how food is starting to look identical everywhere you go.

Everyone is following the same playbook, using the same molds, using the same garnishes, and plating for the exact same camera angle. We rush so fast to get eyeballs on our food that we just end up copying whatever already got likes yesterday.

Walter Lippmann once wrote, “When all think alike, then no one is thinking.”

The exact same trap is happening in cuisine.

You have access to more information, technique, history, and global culinary knowledge than any generation of chefs before you. So why are you choosing to fit in?

Why spend your career making a carbon copy of someone else’s dish just to get a brief nod from an algorithm?

Stop trying to blend into the sea of identical tasting menus. Be the onion bagel at a party of ch*****ne flutes. Show up in your own style, cook with your own perspective, and stand on your own two feet.

DO YOU!

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Be you first.

21/09/2026

"1.4 Million Followers and Next Level Chef. Does He Call Himself a Chef?"

Tim Laielli (Bare Food Tim) joins the podcast to talk about the real divide between content creators and traditional chefs. We cover why fitness comes first, how restaurants can actually use social media to drive real revenue, and what it was really like cooking for Gordon Ramsay just 18 months after posting his first video.

👇 Watch or listen to the full episode now:
https://youtu.be/EHYrbvVauVE?si=DV07UlsltU1lnAvY

His dad spent thirty years telling him never to work in a kitchen. ...

19/09/2026

If you want to earn Michelin stars, go work in Michelin-starred kitchens. If you want to run the best barbecue joint in the country, go stand over a pit until you understand wood, smoke, and timing.

You aren’t going to learn how to make world-class pizza in an Olive Garden.

You cannot absorb high-level standards from an environment that doesn’t hold them. The systems, the pace, the discipline, and the operational culture you immerse yourself in right now are the exact tools you will use when it is time to build your own place.

BE SELECTIVE WITH YOUR TIME AND ENERGY.

Seek out the environments that intimidate you, force you to grow, and show you what true excellence looks like.

If you are worried that you need to get better before you can work in those environments, you are missing the point. The environment is what shapes you.

CHOOSE YOUR TRAINING GROUNDS WISELY.

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17/09/2026

You can tell everything about a cook’s mindset just by looking at their plate. Slanted cuts, cold components, smeared rims, and unseasoned food.

Your food is your signature. Sending out sloppy work tells the pass and the dining room that you simply don’t care enough to do it right. If you have no pride in what leaves your station, you have no business standing on the line.

Every ticket is a test of your personal standard. Do not put your name on garbage.

OWN YOUR PLATE.

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Long live the good cuisine.

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Your name on every plate!