The class, which the chef, Ira Levine, calls "creative French cooking," costs $40.

"The chef calls it 'global fusion,' " Sam explains.

One chef called it the domino effect.

The meal will be a sampling of the food that the chef, Nicola Zanghi, calls cuisine d'amour.

That's what Richelieu's chef called his version of the local allioli.

You are making what chefs today call a plating.

All chefs call for high acidic notes to balance bluefish's richness.

"The most important chef in London," he calls him.

The chef, an out-of-control control freak with a paranoid streak a mile wide, calls Sam constantly.

The ship's chef, a short, round man named Lars, called the captain's name.