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What’s It Like to Be a Chef on a Cruise Ship?

Season 3, Ep. 134

Wolfgang Maier, Executive Culinary Director of Regent Seven Seas Cruises, talks to Mark and Kate about what it's like to work with more than 400 other chefs, making 6000 meals a day; the difference between cooking for staff and cooking for guests (and the best thing about cooking for that many people); the most commonly ordered food; and how alcohol consumption has changed.


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