Cooking lesson from your favorite chef
If you had the chance to spend one day in the kitchen of your favorite restaurant with your favorite chef, what would you want to learn?
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I'd want an intermediate or advanced speed course on cuts of beef, lamb, pork and veal, how to use them each to best advantage and value; when it's all right (and when it's not) to substitute lesser cuts for more expensive ones in dishes, and what adjustments I have to make in those situations.
I have a basic understanding of the topic, good enough I guess for feeding my family, but I feel as though a whole new level of cooking could open up for me if I could *really* develop some facility on the matter.
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To be honest, if I had a chance to spend one day in the kitchen of my favorite chef, I would want to cook for him/her. Always wanted to cook dinner for Julia Child. Oh well...
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re: bnemes3343
BerkshireTsarina
Jan 7, 2009 12:26 PM
Bnemes, in Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon, his collected correspondence for The New Yorker when he lived in Paris, there is a brief chapter on his actually cooking for Alice Waters; you would probably like it a lot!
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The recipe for Butterscotch Pots de Creme at Luma in Winter Park, Fl. I've looked for something like that recipe everywhere, but can't find it. Then I'd stick around to find out how he/she made the popcorn ice cream. And then I would want to know how they come up with their really interesting flavor pairings....
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re: jazzy77
OT, but have you tried the Butterscotch Budino recipe from Pizzeria Mozza in Los Angeles? It was published in the LA TImes here: http://tinyurl.com/a2xmth. it's pretty fantastic!
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