The culinary chef’s workplace can be very diverse, ranging from high end restaurant and hotel kitchens to private kitchens, hospital kitchens, retirement centres, cruise ships or even providing food for movie sets. Long hours are almost a given for the average chef, and working late hours is very common as well. Chef Maryam and her husband have been busy this afternoon preparing Christmas tray bakes for the lovely families we worked with over half term. They handed out complimentary roast dinners ready for the oven or for freezing and enjoying later.