Boomers Can't Stand These Modern Kitchen Design Trends
Tasting Table's Fred Decker, a retired chef and boomer, has strong opinions about kitchen design, and his generation has some common gripes about recent trends.
Read MoreFred began freelancing part-time before culinary school and later spent three years writing a recurring column about local food and growers for the major daily newspaper in his market. Since closing his restaurants at the end of 2010, he has almost exclusively freelanced, with over 8,000 articles published online on a wide range of major sites and in print by Canada's Foodservice & Hospitality magazine. He describes his curiosity as a main driver of his freelance career, saying he "...grew from the kind of kid who read encyclopedias for fun to the kind of adult who reads academic papers for fun."
Fred spent two years at Memorial University of Newfoundland in his teens, then returned to formal education as a mature student. He began his culinary training at Nova Scotia Community College and completed it at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He has also been a nationally certified food safety trainer.
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Tasting Table's Fred Decker, a retired chef and boomer, has strong opinions about kitchen design, and his generation has some common gripes about recent trends.
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