American - Chef | 1970 -
I can fry hollandaise, I can fry ketchup, I can fry mustard.
Wylie Dufresne
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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.
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I don't think of eggs as being fundamental to the flavor of mayonnaise, but they are to Hollandaise.
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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.
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Typically, you learn how to cook, but you don't know why. We were looking for a deeper understanding of what was happening to our food as we roasted it, boiled it, grilled it, chopped it, etc. And it turned out, as we began to really say what is cooking, what does it mean to cook, there's a lot of science involved.
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Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.
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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.
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The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.
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I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.
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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.
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It's been a struggle to get people to come eat for fun. You know, the way they listen to music. You can do all kinds of things with music. But food - it's something people need, and that changes everything. You start playing with it, people have all sorts of reactions.
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My mother made the best scrambled eggs, super-loose and soft.
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