Cooking, Fast and Slow

Learn to cook fast: to let the gas rip, your pan smoking, running close to the wire of burning your food but rewarded instead with char—the kind of flavor transformation that can only happen at brilliant, blistering temperatures, with close and exact attention.

Learn to cook slow. To let time be on your side. To be about your business, letting the food happen in the background, happy to wait anyone and everything out for any period of time, trusting the process and knowing that you’ve outwaited stomachs not currently hungry, letting the warmth gently transform the food over time. 

Sometimes pedal to the floor, sometimes cruise control at 10 miles an hour.

Patient people who aren’t afraid to get in the occasional bar fight.

Thank you. Let’s have a great day.