Even by chef standards, it was a pretty aggressive game.Sure, everyone was there for a good cause and there was a lot of respect for opposing team members, but they were playing to win.Chefs—the good ones, especially—are highly competitive people. For a lot of Canadian cooks and front-of-house staff, hockey is a great way to hit the off switch and channel any aggression that can arise from a high-stress job. Put a bunch of them and their city's pride on a clean sheet of ice and you'll get a hockey game for the ages.That was the logic behind the Drake Barn Burner Hockey Game: Toronto Vs. Montreal Chefs, which, as its name suggests, pitted the finest chefs of the two cities against each other on the ice at the Essroc Arena in Prince Edward County, Ontario."It's a really fucking cool concept," says Nick Chen-Yin, chef-owner of Smoke Signals Bar-B-Q in Toronto. "There's always been a rivalry between Toronto and Montreal within hockey, like, the Leafs versus the Canadiens."Read the entire article on Munchies.
