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Posts tagged “Dan Barber”

Good Quote: Dan Barber On a Cook's Most Important Tool

As you clean out your drawers and evaluate your kitchen equipment, here's a good quote from chef Dan Barber to keep you grounded: Q: What is your single most important cooking tool? A: A spoon. The mo...

Weekend Meditation: On Authenticity and Restraint

Authentic is one of those words that's hard to define and yet we somehow know what it means. The dictionary says it's something that is 'real, genuine, trustworthy' but authenticity is also a value,...

Top Chef New York: E-I-E-I-O (and Really Good Chicken)

Given the snow coming down outside our window here in New York, the setting of last night's episode of Top Chef—the sunny landscape of Dan Barber's Stone Barns—was almost cruel. It was sort of ...

Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow and Dan Barber Speak

When I headed uptown to the 92nd Street Y last night to hear Michael Pollan, Dan Barber and Joan Dye Gussow speak to Hedonistic, Healthy And Green: Can We Have It All?, I expected to see a few hundr...