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Aroma is the central ingredient at Frisson, San Francisco's newest culinary hot spot, where both dishes and drinks are infused with fragrance. Chef Daniel Patterson has created recipes that use essential oils derived from such ingredients as saffron, grapefruit and cilantro. Scented syrups, sugars and salts are melded into dishes like green tea-- scented chicken soup and pork chops with coffee fig sauce, as well as specialty cocktails like the Fountain of Youth, whose ingredients include lime vodka, fresh cucumber and honeydew puree and essence of spearmint. Peers say Patterson is breaking new ground in the way he employs...
...intensity to them that mature herbs don't have," says chef Craig Koketsu, who recently invigorated the staid menu at New York City's venerable Manhattan Ocean Club with South American and Asian accents and lots of microgreens. He tops shrimp a la plancha, below, with micro chives, micro cilantro and micro mint, and accents a vibrant orecchiette in green garlic curry with micro Thai basil. "Microgreens are a visual representation of spring, and I want my menu to taste like spring and look like spring," he says. Home cooks can find the bijou greens at farmer's markets...
...opening day, I did not believe it. It was like a bomb—we just opened the door and people came inside. Our food is cheap and good, and we make the salsa from tomatoes and onions and cilantro every morning. It looks like [the students] are pretty happy since we came here...
...dark green, with a crunchy outer shell—so light that it’s nearly impossible to distinguish between the baked and fried varieties offered at Sepal. The evening buffet, available Mondays through Wednesdays, presents a basic selection of fatoush salad, hummus and baba ganoush, okra with cilantro and garlic, chicken with sumac, lima beans and a deliciously savory maklouba—hearty chunks of lamb or tofu, cauliflower and eggplant sealed with rice and cooked in lamb broth, then turned upside down and served steaming hot. Other Sepal specialties include the warm, filling red lentil soup...
Appetizers? In almost scatter-shot fashion, I go with sha phaley (bread patties stuffed with chopped beef, cilantro, and scallion), cucumber salad dressed in cilantro and yogurt, and temma soup, with lentils, tomatoes, onions and garlic, each about...