Peek into a restaurant kitchen these days and the tall, snowy toque blanche — long the sign of the room’s culinary kahuna — may be tough to find. It is a vanishing species. Instead, heads sport ...

What's A Chef's Hat Called? The iconic chef's hat is called a toque blanche (French for “white hat”). A toque can refer to any hat with no brim, or a very narrow one. There are many theories about its ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE French call it a ''toque blanche'', or ''toque'' for short: a starched white hat with up to 100 pleats which is synonymous with ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Every Friday, we tackle a bunch of viewers' burning questions. This week, Heather Brown explores chefs hats, apples and the speaker of the house. Connie from Menagha asks: Why do ...

Toque blanche is the name given to the tall, starched, white, pleated hat that has been worn in its current form by chefs for almost two centuries. Toque was the name given to a type of hat popular in ...