chef-gen-flavor-base is a base class to make it easy to create 'flavors' for use with [chef-gen-flavors](https://github.com/jf647/chef-gen-flavors). chef-gen-flavors plugs into the 'chef generate' command provided by ChefDK to let you provide an alternate template for cookbooks and other chef components. This gem simply provides a class your flavor can derive from; templates are provided by separate gems, which you can host privately for use within your organization or publicly for the Chef community to use. An example flavor that demonstrates how to use this gem is distributed separately: [chef-gen-flavor-example](https://github.com/jf647/chef-gen-flavor-example) At present this is focused primarily on providing templates for generation of cookbooks, as this is where most organization-specific customization takes place. Support for the other artifacts that ChefDK can generate may work, but is not the focus of early releases.