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Culture ZoneFood Science & History/Ram Chef/4:31

You think chef whites are about tradition, but they're actually about economics — that double-breasted jacket reverses when you spill sauce on service, those baggy pants hide the inevitable burns, and white shows every health inspector exactly how clean you keep your station. The tall hat stopped mattering decades ago, but the rest of this uniform is pure kitchen survival gear disguised as ceremony. Anyone who's worked a Mother's Day brunch knows that looking professional matters exactly as much as your food costs and twice as much as your Yelp reviews.

— The Chef's Take

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