Setting your cuisine specialities
How to choose your cuisine types and why they matter for being found.
2 min readYour cuisine specialities tell employers and recruiters what you cook. They're one of the main filters used in CuliNect's Discover directory — chefs who set their cuisines appear in more relevant searches.
Setting cuisines during onboarding
If you're building from scratch, onboarding shows cuisine options to tap. Web onboarding limits the initial choice to 5. Mobile lets you choose your key styles, and the full Skills editor supports up to 20 cuisines.
Setting or changing cuisines from the dashboard
Open Skills
On web, use Skills on the Dashboard. On mobile, open the CV tab and edit Skills.
Find the Cuisines field
Add or remove cuisine types. The saved profile supports up to 20 cuisines.
Tap Save
Your cuisines are updated immediately on your public CV and in search.
Which cuisines should I pick?
- Choose what you genuinely specialise in — not everything you've ever cooked.
- Be specific where you can: 'South Indian' is more useful than just 'Indian'.
- If you work across multiple styles, pick your primary 2–3 first.
- You can save up to 20, but a short focused list is more useful than many vague entries.
Employers search by cuisine first. A pastry chef who lists 'Bakery & Pastry' will appear in every pastry search. One who leaves it blank won't.
Cuisines vs. stations
Cuisines (Italian, Japanese, North Indian) describe food styles. Stations (Pastry, Garde Manger, Sauté) describe where you work in the kitchen. Manage both explicitly in Skills; each Work History entry can also record the station for that role.
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