Secrets of the Best Chefs

Porcini-Crusted Rack of Lamb with Celeriac- Potato Gratin Serves 4 Earthiness is the name of the game here. You have the earthy ...

on a mandoline 6 medium Yukon Gold potatoes, sliced into thin rounds on a mandoline 2 tablespoons chopped rosemary* 2 tablespoon ...

medium rare, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove to a plate and allow the meat to rest* for 15 minutes. When ready to serve, slice the rack ...

Anne Quatrano Chef-owner, Bacchanalia, Star Provisions, Abbatoir, and Floataway Café Atlanta, Georgia My question is fairly inno ...

and the Yukon Gold potatoes are scooped with a melon baller to echo the other shapes. When the soup is finished, it’s as stunnin ...

cooks the food that she loves and presents it in a way that meets her very exacting standards. Still, Quatrano doesn’t see it th ...

“I think food should be visual, don’t you?” ...

Quatrano’s Kitchen Know-How USE A HIGH-FAT, European-style butter such as Plugra (see Resources in your cooking. It imparts a be ...

Herb-Cured Duck Breast with Baby Turnips and Meyer Lemon Serves 2 If Melissa Clark’s duck breast with grapes is easy enough to b ...

1 tablespoon fresh rosemary* 1 teaspoon grated orange zest 1 clove garlic, peeled 1 large duck breast, with the fat trimmed down ...

duck in a covered container or a resealable plastic bag and rub it all over with the cure. Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours, bu ...

bowls. Top with some of the sliced duck and a little more of the sauce. Sprinkle with fleur de sel and garnish with chervil, if ...

Pasta Fagioli Serves 4 Think of this soup as more of a concept than a recipe. Quatrano throws in a handful of turnip greens whil ...

¼ cup cooked cranberry beans (optional) ¼ cup cooked cannellini beans (you can use canned) 4 to 6 cups good-quality chicken stoc ...

You can make the olive powder a few days ahead of the soup. Simply pat dry pitted kalamata olives (about 1 or 2 cups, depending ...

Baba au Rhum with Grapes and Crème Fraîche ...

Serves 4 ...

This is not a traditional baba au rhum, so purists, stand back. Instead, this is an elevated French toast infused with a syrup m ...

½ cup milk ¼ cup sugar 1 egg 1 egg yolk ½ teaspoon vanilla extract FOR THE BABA 4 tablespoons (½ stick) unsalted butter (1 table ...

melting the butter in it. Depending on the size of the pan and the size of the brioche sticks, you can cook them all at once or ...