User talk:Chefperroir

Chefperroir (talk) 17:42, 13 December 2008 (UTC) Definition of artist: Today, I was working on finishing a chapter of a series of cookbooks that I am writing when I went to Wiki for a definition. No where was a chef included within the context of the definition of an artist. Is a chef an artist? Preface:I am a chef by trade and my series of cookbooks is different from most in that it is not only a collection of recipes/techniques, rather,it is more the thought or thinking of what a chef or at-home cook should consider to successfully complete a recipe or meal. I am also an artist. When I first began making mobiles in the early 1970s, I was designing and developing a small resort and restaurant in the Caribbean where I had a unique studio. I corresponded regularly with Alexander ´Sandy` Calder who honored me by sending two of his apprentices from his studio in Tours, France to work with me. The week before the two very talented young apprentices were to leave, they told me that Sandy wanted one of my mobiles. I was totally set a-back of what to create for the greatest living mobile maker in the world.So, I made the simplest mobile I could possibly imagine.Both Calder and his wife both sent me separate notes on how much they enjoyed my mobile and even where it was hung in their house! The definition of an artist varies from a person who expresses his self through a medium to one who is highly skilled with or in technique and method. Often, the critera to validate the authenticity or greatness of a chef is judged by his artistic expression but like any other profession, the art of the craft may be expressed in many and different ways. The delemma of my paradox is that the term ´culinary arts´ or the fact that a great chef is an artist is difficult to determine to include in the definition of artist, a chef. Please give me any and all ´feed´-back with a reward of a signed copy of my first book to the one who provides the best response.