Zitat des Tages von Wylie Dufresne:
It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges.
I don't think of eggs as being fundamental to the flavor of mayonnaise, but they are to Hollandaise.
My mother made the best scrambled eggs, super-loose and soft.
We have fried things in cubes, historically. We tried bars of Hollandaise, we tried different shapes, but it ultimately seemed like the cube was the right shape.
When ramps are in season, we pickle a bunch of ramps and fold that into soup. Pickled pearl onions are great chopped up or pureed.
I would like to, at some point, do a cookbook.
Whether it be cereal technology or candy technology or snack technology, puff snacks, I'm always curious to know how those things are made and how we can take that technology, those ingredients, and apply it to a stand-alone restaurant.
I would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would - I would say that it's probably lumped under chemistry, maybe. Because cooking, while it has certainly biology and some physics, it's mostly chemistry.
Okay, a lot of people think that I'm someone known for a love of eggs and egg cookery. Being asked to endorse an egg yolk separator, I mean, I understood where it came from, but it didn't seem necessarily like something that was ultimately worth pursuing.
Whites cook at a lower temperature, set at a lower temperature than yolks. That, to me, is very interesting. That has opened up - as an egg lover, that has opened up sort of a world of possibilities, of applications.
Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup.
The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.
People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.
I present classics in an unfamiliar way or unfamiliar ingredients and preparations in a classical way.
I can fry hollandaise, I can fry ketchup, I can fry mustard.
It turns out that life in the kitchen is very similar to life on a team. Sports and kitchens are about teams. I found my alternate team sport in the kitchen.
It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.
I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.
It's a funny thing, but it's often overlooked that I'm a huge devout lover of French cooking. I have the utmost respect for them, though they have lost their respect for me because they think the way I cook is nutty.
The spirit of pickling is one of adventure and fun.
The most important thing with turkey is to let it rest - most people don't let it rest long enough. It will get juicier the longer you let it rest.
I have no interest in vegetarians whatsoever. Zero. Less than zero.
Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a constant state of flux.
Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.
There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.