Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page

My friend M and her boyfriend are in town, and we are going to my favorite place on Earth, Restaurant Gary Danko, tonight! In honor of this fine occasion, I offer a quote from Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page.

"Gary Danko says, ‘Cooking is, for me, the perfect balance of art and science. There’s that creative endeavor within you that can think out the seasons and the flavor profiles. Then there’s the scientific part—what is actually going on with the whisk? If I’m blanching broccoli, why is it turning brown in the pan? As you study that, you learn that sometimes if you cook a lot of vegetables in the same water, an acid will develop. And if you cook a green vegetable in that acidic water, it’s going to turn brown. So these are things you start to learn through science.”

Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page

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