Glacier

"Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world," according to a study by the International Commission for Snow and Ice (ICSI). "If the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 is very high."

In many brigades, this chef might be under the Patissier or if the operation is large enough, be a chef with a station all its own.

This chef can make you any flavor of ice cream that the pantry can provide, if you want garlic ice cream, the Glacier would gladly make you a batch. Under my training we have come up with a lot of weird stuff, considering that our instructors always encourage us to expand our minds, so well, I usually come to the kitchen high as a kite and all of my chefs love me so far.

The glacier, if he is also artistically inclined, may be also placed in charge of ice sculptures although most of the ice sculptors that I know do only that and are no culinarians themselves. They do get paid a good amount, like US$50 an hour here in my country. Consider that the minimum wage here comes out to just around US$150.00 a month!

Gla"cier (?), n. [F. glacier, fr. glace ice, L. glacies.]

An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.

The mass of compacted snow forming the upper part of a glacier is called the firn, or n'ev'e; the glacier proper consist of solid ice, deeply crevassed where broken up by irregularities in the slope or direction of its path. A glacier usually carries with it accumulations of stones and dirt called moraines, which are designated, according to their position, as lateral, medial, or terminal (see Moraine). The common rate of flow of the Alpine glaciers is from ten to twenty inches per day in summer, and about half that in winter.

Glacier theory Geol., the theory that large parts of the frigid and temperate zones were covered with ice during the glacial, or ice, period, and that, by the agency of this ice, the loose materials on the earth's surface, called drift or diluvium, were transported and accumulated.

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