Combine your passion for cooking with your passion for adventure sports. You might be able to parlay a culinary school degree and a sense of adventure into any number of adventure sport chef jobs.
Love to ski? You might spend your winters as a chef in a ski resort in Colorado or further afield at a ski chalet in Austria, Switzerland, or Italy. Enjoy hiking? Answer the call of the wild in Tanzania, Africa, where they have chef jobs for safari treks up Mt. Kilimanjaro. If you love camping, there are chef jobs in summer camps in the northeastern United States, where you can work outdoors with fellow chefs from all over the world.
Get a culinary school degree and take it with you on the high seas. There are an abundance of chef jobs on big cruise ships, private luxury barges, sailboats, and yachts of all sizes and destinations. If you love to sail, you can find a variety of positions on the Internet for chef jobs on yacht charters in exotic ports of call in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean. Apply for chef jobs on yachts that spirit you away to Turkey, the Greek Isles, and Morocco or Tunis.
If you’re looking for chef jobs closer to home, perform your culinary magic on charter yachts in Hawaii, Key West, the Virgin Islands, or other beautiful tropical locations in the Caribbean. One Santa Barbara sailing concern offers a five hour skippered cruise with a 5-course gourmet meal complete with wine pairings.
Is kayaking or white water rafting your passion? Your culinary school degree can be your entr��e to more extreme adventure sport chef jobs. One kayaking company on Canada’s Georgian Bay promises adventure and gourmet meals by their resident chef.
Opportunities like these offer you a chance to combine your adventure sport and culinary passions. Wouldn’t it be great to love what you work at and work at what you love?
Judi Sandall is a technical writer and a regular Chef School Review columnist and adventure sport enthusiast. She is a graduate of the State University of New York, with a BA in English Literature.