美語情景對話 第660期:How to be a Chef 成爲廚師的方法

Todd: OK, Rebecca we're talking about working in a restaurant. Now you became a chef. Can you talk about the process of becoming a chef? What do you do to get a job in a kitchen?

託德：麗貝卡，我們來談一下在廚房工作的事情。你是一名廚師。你能說說成爲廚師的過程嗎？你是怎麼得到廚房的工作的？

Rebecca: Well, there's lots of different ways, but the most common way is to become an apprentice which means you go to the kitchen and work at the bottom level doing the basic chopping — boring jobs — for maybe two or three years, and then one day a week you go to school, a cooking school. Your employer pays for you to go to the school. You do get paid by your employer but it's a really small wage, so, yeah. Otherwise, you can start at the bottom, like a dishwasher, and actually Australia's most famous chef started that way. He just was a dishwasher and he slowly climbed up the ladder, so you can do it that way as well.

麗貝卡：有很多種不同的方法，最普遍的做法是先當學徒，你要先去廚房裏從底層開始做起，做一些簡單的切菜之類的無聊工作，這項工作可能要做兩三年的時間，然後每週有一天去上烹飪學校上課。你的僱主會支付去你烹飪學校的費用。在這段時間裏，雖然你也有工資，不過非常少。還有一種方法，你可以從洗碗工這種底層工作開始做起，實際上澳大利亞最著名的廚師就是從洗碗工開始做起的。他從洗碗工開始，一步步往上升，所以也可以用這種方法。

Todd: So what about you? Did you go to cooking school?

託德：那你呢？你也上過烹飪學校嗎？

Rebecca: Yeah, I did, but actually I dropped out after awhile, so I did that for about a year but to be honest I think you get more experience in a kitchen. Sometimes the stuff they teach you at school is a little bit old-fashioned.

麗貝卡：對，上過，不過我只上了一段時間就退學了，我大概學了一年的時間，不過說實話，我覺得在廚房裏工作能積累更多經驗。有時你在學校裏學的東西會有點過時。

Todd: How much actually of what you learn do you just learn on yourself, as just a creative process? Like how much do you think you learn by watching others and how much do you learn on your own, using your own creativity?

託德：你基本上是自學嗎，就是那種創新的過程？你通過觀看他人來學習佔了多少比重？你用自己的創造力自學又佔了多大比重？

Rebecca: I think both are really important. Actually, I learned a lot from my mother. When I was a kid, I used to watch her cooking all the time, and it wasn't until I grew up that I realized how much I understood about cooking just from seeing what she did in the kitchen, but also talking about how to do things with your colleagues I think is really important.

麗貝卡：我覺得這兩種方法都很重要。實際上，我從我媽媽那裏學到了很多。我小時候經常會在一旁看我媽媽做飯，直到我長大以後我才意識到我只是看她在廚房做飯就學到了很多烹飪技巧，我認爲如何和同事相處也非常重要。

Todd: Now, I'm curious, you know how to cook, and everybody knows you know how to cook — family members and friends — so how... do you like to actually cook for family members and friends or is cooking a job that when you go home, you prefer not to cook for other people because it's like bringing your work home?

託德：我好奇的是，你知道如何烹飪，你的家人和朋友都知道你會做飯，那你喜歡爲家人和朋友做東西吃嗎？還是你只把烹飪當作工作，回家以後你不想再給其他人做飯吃，因爲會有種把工作帶回家的感覺？

Rebecca: Well, I know some chefs that have nothing in their fridge and they hate cooking at home, but I'm not like that. I really love cooking for people. It's really the nicest thing you can do for someone is to give them a lovely meal. The sad thing is actually that no one will ever cook for me, because they're too scared. They always apologize before I even have a chance to eat it. "Oh, it's going to be terrible. Oh, you're a cook. I'm sorry." But actually I love food being cooked for me. I wish people would do it more.

麗貝卡：嗯，我知道有些廚師自己的冰箱裏什麼都沒有，他們討厭在家做飯，不過我不是這樣。我非常喜歡給人們做飯吃。我認爲對別人做的最好的事情就是給他們準備一頓美餐。不過令人難過的是沒有人給我做飯吃，因爲他們會擔心。通常在我嘗味道之前，他們就已經先道歉了。“哦，這肯定不好吃。你是廚師，我很抱歉。” 實際上我喜歡別人爲我做飯吃。我希望他們能多這樣做。

Todd: OK. That's funny. Thanks Rebecca.

託德：好。這很有趣，謝謝你，麗貝卡。

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重點講解：
1. as well 也；還；
例句：I write my own songs and I play the guitar as well.
我唱自己譜曲的歌，也彈吉他。
2. what about （用於引出與之前內容相關的新的話題或觀點）那麼…怎麼樣；
例句：You will feel fine. But what about him?
你自然很高興，可是對方如何呢?
3. drop out 退學；退出（比賽等）；
例句：In any year some of the students on this crash course find the pace too hot for them and drop out before Christmas.
每年都有一些修這門速成課的學生覺得課程負擔太重而於聖誕節前輟學。
4. to be honest 老實說；說實在的；
例句：To be honest, I knew very little about Western culture.
說老實話，我對西方文化所知甚少。
5. on one's own 獨立地；依靠自己地；
例句：He can be left to work on his own.
工作可交給他一個人去做。
6. used to do sth. 過去常常；過去曾；
例句：He used to smoke a pack of cigarette a day.
他過去經常一天抽一包香菸。