If you have ever watched Gordon Ramsay put contestants through their paces on Hell's Kitchen, you have probably heard terms like "sous chef," "line cook," and "head chef" thrown around constantly.

Ivy Knight spent a decade as a line cook before becoming a writer and filmmaker. She focuses on the inner workings of restaurants with an eye to showcasing the underserved in the food and wine ...

In “Kitchen Confidential,” the book that launched Anthony Bourdain’s writing career, he explained that his subject was “street-level cooking and its practitioners.” Line cooks—the people actually ...