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...wrong. "I love ramps," says chef David Myers of Sona and Comme Ça in Los Angeles. "They taste wild to me, like an intense, pungent onion flavor mixed with the forest." "Ramps are a spring treat that have a quick season and are much better-tasting than cultivated leeks, scallions or chives," says Mark Fuller of Seattle's Spring Hill, one of Food and Wine's best new chefs last year. "Our guests also get excited for ramps." But does he think the humble ramp warrants this much hoopla? "Overvalued? Not to me," he says...
...Armed with such measuring tools as the HUDS teaspoon and the HUDS paper cup, with this recipe book, you too can recreate former award-winning Harvard Top Chef dishes and tasty alternatives with ordinary dining hall ingredients...
...earlier verison of the April 7 post "A 'Cook' Book by Cabot" incorrectly stated that the Cabot House cooking competition was titled "Cabot Iron Chef." In fact, it was called "Harvard Top Chef...
...last bite of bluefin tuna the other night. It came at SHO Shaun Hergatt, a luxurious restaurant in the Wall Street area known for its eponymous chef's penchant for using the best ingredients from around the world. The bluefin was no exception. Served on a pristine plate with fennel gelée, young ginger and artisanal soy, this was pure o-toro (bluefin belly), the pinnacle of fishly flesh, a barely dressed bombshell that exploded on my palate with incomparable taste and texture. It was awesome. But I have to stop eating...
...Bernardin, won't serve the fish for ethical reasons. Others, like Paul Bartolotta of Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare in Las Vegas, one of Le Bernardin's few peers as a seafood temple, find bluefin boring. "We have basically never served tuna here since the day we opened," the chef says. "Aside from the sustainability issues, it's just so overused. You see it everywhere from the Cheesecake Factory to, well, everywhere. The same tuna with the same sweet-spicy Asian marinade. Are you kidding me? Can we not get any more original than that?" (See pictures of what makes...