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Are you a cook... or a shoemaker?
In Michael Ruhlman's The Elements of Cooking, a shoemaker is defined as kitchen slang for an untalented cook. Chef David Cruz of the Napa restaurant Ad Hoc would like to add this distinction: "Shoemaker indicated someone who didn't care, who, in the heat of service, simply slapped food on a plate, wanting only to get the night over with, to get the food out the door and go home." I wonder what bad shoemakers are called... (If you want to know how this term even came about, a commenter explains its origins.)
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