The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

(Nandana) #1

THE BEST FAJITAS


I’m not particularly    proud   of  my  time    spent   working at
the kinds of cheesy chain restaurants you’d find next to
the Victoria’s Secret at the mall, or perhaps in Times
Square.

But aside from making me shun any writer that uses the
phrase “X to perfection,” it did teach me one valuable
lesson: People looooooove meat served on a sizzling platter.
It was a well-known phenomenon: If a waiter sold one order
of Extreme Fajitas™ to a table in their section, a half dozen
more orders would quickly follow.

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