You follow a monastic tradition that teaches you to utilize your skills from the kitchen in combat. You might have been the chef at your monastery, or learned to cook from a family member or a mentor. Either way you have a love for cooking and preparing food, and you are an expert with knives and other cooking utensils. In addition, Monks of the Way of the Chef are thought how to best forage and handle food, and can skin and gut any kind of animal. As long as you have access to the right ingredients, you can prepare delicious meals for yourself and your companions.

Monks of the Way of the Chef use daggers (knives) or handaxes (cleavers) as their weapon of choice.

Gifted Cook

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Nature skill if you don’t already have it. Your martial arts technique mixes combat training with your expertise in the kitchen. You also gain proficiency with Cook's Utensils if you don’t already have it. You can also channel your ki into your cooking, and can spend 1 ki point to cast Purify Food and Drink.

Knife Virtuoso

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, your experience as a chef makes you an expert with knives and cleavers. Whenever you use Flurry of Blows, you can choose choose to do so with your dagger (piercing damage) or handaxe (slashing damage) instead. Use your Martial Arts die (d4) when dealing damage. This die changes as you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.

Hero's Feast

Monks of the Way of the Chef are firm believers in that a hero is only as good as his last meal. Once per day you can conjure a nutritious meal for yourself and up to five other creatures. The meal requires 30 minutes of preparation, and when eaten restores 3d12 health to the creature. It also stops the creature from being poisoned and reduces exhaustion level by 1. You need Cook's Utensils and minimum three ingredients to make one feast. The ingredients are consumed after use. 

Starting at 11th level you can use this feature two times per day.

On a Full Stomach

Starting at 11th level, you have the ability to guide the ki of others. Whenever a friendly creature within 5 feet of you makes an attack roll, you can spend 2 ki points to give them advantage on the roll.

Slice and Dice

At 17th level, you have mastered the art of knife handling. Whenever you make an attack with a dagger (knife) or a handaxe (cleaver), you double your proficiency bonus for the attack roll. You also ignore resistance to piercing and slashing damage on a hit.