Possible Clues:

• Bistro VIP
• In cooking field, primarily a male
• I leave head cook in charge
• A cordon bleu, perhaps - the man without compare!
• Cook ide's head, taken from the main
• One whose work can be stirring
• Revolutionary female who has a set of knives?
• Chief male cook in restaurant
• Quiche failure largely down to head of kitchen
• Principal disheartened fellow devising courses