Embrace the Process of Dish Creation
The process of creating new dishes can start long before you actually sit down to hash out an idea. In the same way that you may rely on the flavor bank that you’ve built up over time, you’re also likely to lean on the technical skills you’ve developed over your cooking career. And the more skills you have at your disposal, the more free you can be to let your creativity shine.
Take the Time to Hone Techniques
When creating new dishes, Chef Pietro believes in the importance of At one of the restaurants he once worked at, he made the same recipe for gravlax, or cured salmon, every week for a whole year. In doing so, the process became second nature to him. When the restaurant brought in two additional types of salmon—a White and Red King Salmon—he knew exactly what he wanted to do. With three different colors of salmon on the plate now, why not have three different flavors?
Having established the fundamental technique, he found that he was able to focus on the flavors that he wanted to incorporate; rather than having to reinvent the wheel, he could instead let the flavors and ingredients do the talking. He introduced a sambuca-basil cure for one of the new types of salmon—a flavor combination he had always wanted to try and now had the opportunity to work with thanks to the availability of the ingredients and his knowledge of the technique.
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