Secrets of the Best Chefs

Juiced Gazpacho Serves 4 Gazpacho is normally an easy dish to make: you blend the ingredients together, taste, and adjust the se ...

Lay a cucumber horizontally on the cutting board. Plunge an apple corer into it vertically, removing several rods of cucumber. C ...

These are always best from the farmer’s market (or grown yourself) in summer. Andrés called this “the most amazing gelatin i ...

Salt-Crusted Pork Loin with Ibérico Ham and Asparagus ...

Serves 4 to 6 ...

Cooking isn’t just about making dinner, it’s also about the sights, the smells, and the feel of the ingredients between your fin ...

Preheat the oven to 450°F. In a large bowl, add 5 cups salt and enough cold water to create the consistency of wet snow. Once th ...

crowd. If necessary, cook the asparagus in batches. To clean the baking dish, just run scalding hot water over everything. The ...

Naomi Pomeroy Chef-owner, Beast Portland, Oregon To say that chef Naomi Pomeroy has strong opinions about food would be a profou ...

I pause for a second. Didn’t I do that once? “What do you serve?” “Something fruity and bright.” She informs me that chefs frequ ...

and analog,” says Pomeroy. “We’re very analog. We like the scratches and pops.”) Control is a tricky issue for many eaters. Afte ...

“My number one pet peeve is when an element is on the plate just for the color.” ...

Pomeroy’s Kitchen Know-How THREE INGREDIENTS form Pomeroy’s trifecta of flavor: demi- glace (see recipe), thirty-year-aged balsa ...

French Onion Soup Serves 4 Accuse me of hyperbolizing, I don’t care. This is the French onion soup of your dreams, the one you f ...

brown, stirring frequently. As soon as you see a little color, 5 to 10 minutes, lower the heat to medium low and continue to coo ...

Porcini-Rubbed Roast Beef with Demi-Glace and Caramelized Turnips Serves 4 This is a special-occasion dish, the kind of meal you ...

3 tablespoons unsalted butter 8 medium turnips, cleaned and quartered (no need to peel) Maple sugar (see Resources) or muscovado ...

Heat the demi-glace in a small pan. Drizzle demi-glace over the serving plates, slice the meat into thick slices, and place the ...

Lentilpalooza ...

Serves 4 to 6 This dish is so named because every time I turned my back, ...