matthew vianet, joseph viola and the institute s top dog, alain lacosec. chefs and m.o.f.s all. otherwise known as muffs. pretty much pay your flight home, private. master chefs. every four years, they have this m.o.f. competition. m.o.f. is meillure oublier of france. the master craftsmen of france. there s about 30 discipline of craftsmen where you can acquire the m.o.f. see that red, white and blue around their necks? that means they made it through the brutally, unreasonably rigorous competition that pits hundreds of top chefs against each other, where only a handful survive. so basically, four or five every four years. certified by the highest in the land as being at the very top of the top of their professions. m.o.f. challenges often include ultra old-school classics not unlike the one we re making today.