High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chef Rachel Klein is one of America's top female chefs. She has received much praise on her take on global cuisine and Asian inspired dishes. She was named 2006 "Best New Chef of Boston" in Boston Magazine as well as winning One of Esquire Magazine's 20 best new restaurants for OM Restaurant in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. A chef is a person who cooks professionally. In a professional kitchen setting, the term is used only for the one person in charge of everyone else in the kitchen the "executive chef." The word "chef" (from Latin caput) is the abbreviated form of the French phrase chef de cuisine, the "chief" or "head" of a kitchen. The title chef in the culinary profession originates from the roots of haute cuisine in the 19th century. The English-language use of the word chef has become a term that is sometimes used to mean any professional cook, regardless of rank.