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Spring/Summer Menu Preview 2012
Menu Preview
Five chefs emerge from the chilly depths of root veg and braising season to imagine what they’ll be cooking as the weather mellows to languidness...
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Hits & Flops November 2011
Hits and Flops
It's either "they got great taste" or "these guys don't know nuthin." You see, chefs never understand why one thing turns diners on and why another...
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When Pigs Fly Part Deux
Mystery Basket
Seen this one before? Let’s see how it turns out this time.
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Hits & Flops May 2011
Hits and Flops
Love and rejection, rejection and love—the couplet all chefs have to deal with when diners read their menus. Seven chefs descrive their "wows" an...
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Praised Short Ribs
Mystery Basket
On menus everywhere, but never like this, as four chefs render uncommon twists to a common ingredient. Jim Poris reports.
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Spring/Summer Menu Preview 2011
Menu Preview
Days grow longer. So, too, does the volume and variety of produce. Chefs rejoice. Six happy ones describe what they're doing to cook as the seasona...
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Hits & Flops November 2010
Hits and Flops
Some dishes are in constant demand, while others have no takers. Six chefs puzzle over their customers' whims.
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Shin Kicks
Mystery Basket
It's osso buco, but beef rather than veal. To some it's called beef shin. To others, beef shank.
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Fall/Winter Menu Preview 2010
Menu Preview
Roasted and braised, touchstone techniques that conjure up the hearth and a wooly blanket. But these five chefs have plenty of modern touches in mi...
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Hits & Flops May 2010
Hits and Flops
When you're good, you're good. SO how can you be bad when you're really good? Six chefs muse about why good dishes succeed while other worthy (or b...
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Melding Chocolate
Mystery Basket
Here's a first: Mystery Basket is done with dinner and ready for dessert. Menu, please.
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Spring/Summer Menu Preview 2010
Menu Preview
The bloom is on the rose and on these five chefs' creative energies as well as they mothball stews and plot for two sunny seasons of abundance.
