ChefTalk is “a food lover’s link to professional chefs” where regular folk can ask questions and get detailed answers based on a lifetime of learning and practicing pro strategies. Here is an example–a thread in which a starving college student wants to stretch his food budget and receives lots of good advice but also the admonition that “You’re not actually allowed to be broke, starving, unwilling to work and overly-fussy all at the same time.”
ChefTalk also includes advice for would-be professional chefs on is culinary school worth it, how much will I make, etc. Check it out.