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The DirTy SecreTS anD Deep Flavor oF Black Garlic p.91 Mentaiko at Do or Dine = DevileD eggs squareD p.87 The New face of pasTry At BlAncA p.47 Are You in A new York StAte of wine? p.74 Brooklyn, a Shot in the arm for New York DiNiNg p.3 A SnAil’S TAle: LumacheLLe Pasta technique p.48 Get Fanatical the go-to source for the foodservice industry and anyone truly passionate about food, food people and improving the bottom line. View the magazine on iPad Th e Magazi n e for Culi nary i nsi ders Starch efS. com | $4 . 00 r Download the app from iTunes to your iPad also aVailable on the web at FoodFanatics.com WHY CHEFS USE FEATURES 3 Letter from the Editors 37 How to Bake America 77 87 Mentaiko and Deviled Eggs 47 The New Face of Pastry at Blanca 48 A Snail’s Tale: Lumachelle Pasta Technique 74 New York State of Wine NYC Brewing Industry: A Resurgence of Choice Squared 89 A Textural Surprise to Honor Mr. Ramos 91 The Dirty Secrets and Deep Flavors of Black Garlic 94 Punches, Daisies, and Pre-Speakeasy Advocacy 2013 NEW YORK RISING STARS CH EFS 4 Justin Bazdarich Speedy Romeo 6 PJ Calapa Ai Fiori 8 Leah Cohen Pig and Khao 10 Justin Hilbert Gwynnett St. 14 Matt Lightner Atera 16 Joseph Ogrodnek & Walker Stern Battersby 20 Angelo Romano The Pines Q UE NT IN B ACON PHOTOG R AP H 22 Justin Smillie Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria CONCEPT 58 Joe Carroll Fette Sau COM MUN ITY 60 Michael Chernow & Daniel Holzman The Meatball Shop R E S T A U R AT E U R 64 Noah Bernamoff Mile End M I X O LO G I S T S 66 Jeff Bell PDT 68 Jillian Vose Death + Company SOM M ELI ERS 26 Dale Talde Talde 70 Emilie Perrier Ai Fiori 28 Michael Toscano Perla 72 Thomas Pastuszak The NoMad HOT E L CH E F BREW ER P A S T RY C H E F S F E AT U R E D G U E S T C H E F 40 Malcolm Livingston II wd~50 EMCEE 30 34 Abram Bissell The NoMad Ashley Brauze DB Bistro Moderne 44 Katy Peetz Blanca 76 Rich Buceta SingleCut Beersmiths 80 82 Hillary Sterling The Beatrice Inn Elizabeth Falkner Krescendo VI P CH EF S U STA I N A BI L I T Y CH E F “QUALITY AND CONSISTENCY, JUST LIKE MY TEAM.” JOSH THOMSEN EXECUTIVE CHEF/PARTNER 50 Evan Hanczor Parish Hall M EN TOR CH EF A RT I S A N S of AGRICOLA EATERY | PRINCETON, NJ 54 Aurélien Dufour Daniel Boulud Restaurants 56 TEL (80 0 ) 884 -JAD E | W W W.JA D ERA NGE.COM 84 German Calle Petrossian Restaurant New York 86 Wylie Dufresne wd~50 Zachary Golper Bien Cuit Stay connected with StarChefs.com and Rising Stars Magazine. Scan to subscribe today! N EW YORK 2013 K 4 PASTRY CH EF STRAWBERRY-LIME CHIFFON, FROMAGE BLANC SORBET, STRAWBERRY MERINGUE, STRAWBERRIES, AND BASIL ASHLEY BRAUZE DB Bistro Moderne PASTRY CHEF ASHLEY BRAUZE OF DB BISTRO MODERNE – NEW YORK, NY ADAPTED BY STARCHEFS.COM 55 West 44 Street, New York, NY 10036 (212) 391-2400 | dbbistro.com/nyc th YIELD: 20 SERVINGS I NGREDI ENTS Ashley Brauze grew up surrounded by simple, satisfying comfort foods, and her first foray into the industry was a job rolling bagels at Bruegger’s Bagel Shop. But a culinary school degree from Johnson & Wales in Charleston, South Carolina, and a revelatory trip to New York City would change all that. As a tourist, Brauze dined at Daniel Boulud’s Restaurant Daniel, and instantly fell in love with fine dining. Strawberry Filling: 790 grams strawberries, hulled and sliced 200 grams lemon segments Zest of 1 lemon 90 grams sugar 15 grams silver gelatin sheets Strawberry Meringue: 1 kilograms strawberry purée 22 grams egg white powder 372 grams egg whites 11 grams silver gelatin sheets 74 grams sugar FAST FACTS PHOTOGRAPH BY SHAN NON ST URGIS Favorite tool: I love my OXO 501 food scale and my air compressor—I spray a lot of chocolate! Tool you wish you had: Pacojet and a rotary vacuum evaporator Favorite cookbook: Matière Chocolat by Stéphane Leroux and Chocolate Book by Ramon Morato Where you want to go for culinary travel: I’m torn between returning to Cadaqués, Spain to check out Compartir by Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch, and Mateu Casañas of El Bulli or going on a gastronomic tour of Lyon. Strawberry Mousse: 30 grams silver gelatin sheets 640 grams heavy cream 1.065 kilograms strawberry purée 130 grams yolks 85 grams sugar Strawberry Consommé: 500 grams strawberries, sliced in half 30 grams sugar Juice of 1 lemon Strawberry Gelée Ribbon: 10 grams silver gelatin sheets 777 grams strawberry consommé 194 grams Sherry vinegar 5 grams agar agar Basil Gel: 1 liter basil purée 40 grams sugar 6 grams agar agar To Assemble and Serve: 1 pint strawberries, hulled Sherry vinegar Sugar ½ cup micro basil I S upport en rod uce d to the m wh Why: I wa s firs t int nie l Da ef Ch . l nie Da nt ura I wa s hire d at Re sta rgy ene his of rs ntl ess hou Bo ulu d ded icates cou hap pen s to o als It se. cau s to sup por ting thi ce my clo se to my heart sin be a charity that is -on als Me a m ass ist anc e fro grandm other rec eives is. bas ly dai a Wheel s As soc iat ion on vate n-W hee ls rais es pri Ab out : Cit ym eal s-o erly New eld und ebo hom no fun ds to ens ure day wit hou t foo d or Yor ker wil l eve r go a y. pan hum an com cit ym eal s.o rg K r STARCH EFS.COM RISI NG STARS Having worked in top pastry kitchens on both sides of the Atlantic, Brauze gained top-notch skills and experience that she brought back to the Boulud empire with a role at Café Boulud with Raphael Haasz. Today, she is the pastry chef at DB Bistro Moderne, where she consistently creates dessert menus that blend the restaurant’s bistro ethos with her own sophisticated elegance and creativity. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTOI N ETTE BRUNO @ ASH LEYBRAUZE @ DBBISTRONYC Citymeals-on-Wheels 5 She packed her bags and moved to the city, returning to Daniel in 2005. Brauze began a world-class pastry education crafting petits fours under Pastry Chef Jean François Bonnet. In 2007, Brauze and her husband, fellow Daniel alum Chad Brauze, were both invited to work at Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli in Spain, where Brauze worked alongside Pastry Chef Albert Adrià on dishes for his celebrated cookbook, Natura. Upon returning to New York City, the couple spent a year cooking at Per Se. Fromage Blanc Sorbet: 400 grams water 370 grams sugar 3 grams ice cream stabilizer 240 grams low-fat yogurt 400 grams sour cream 500 grams fromage blanc 35 grams lime juice 50 grams lemon juice Lime Chiffon: 250 grams flour 290 grams sugar 12 grams baking powder 2 grams salt 150 grams egg yolks 25 grams grapeseed oil Zest of 2 limes 1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped 150 grams egg whites 115 grams water N EW YORK 2013 K 6 LUMACHELLE TECHNIQUE 1.With a pasta machine, roll pasta dough into 1/8-inch sheets. 2.Cut into ¼-inch x 10-inch long strips and brush with egg wash. 3.With a thin wooden dowel, about the diameter of a pencil, take the pasta strip and roll it in concentric circles down the length of the dowel, making sure the overlap of the rings are the same the entire length down the dowel. 4.When the whole strip has been rolled, slide the pasta off of the dowel, and place upright to partially dry. ALUMACHELLE SNAIL’PASTAS TECHNIQUE TALE: BY MOLLY HANNON | PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHANNON STURGIS There’s a pasta shape for every village in Italy with native cooks crafting endless combinations of water, flour, and eggs. For Chef de Cuisine Adam Nadel of New York City’s A Voce Columbus, growing as an Italian cook means exploring these village specialties one pasta shape and technique at a time. Researching historic pasta types, Nadel encountered lumachelle from Italy’s Le Marche region. “We do a lot of research into our pastas, and this was a rather obscure shape that I thought would be fun to interpret,” says Nadel. Le Marche is home to an annual snail festival each June, and the spiral-shaped pasta is named after the “little snails” they resemble. Working with the lumachelle not only offers Nadel and his diners a chance to dig into another layer of Italian gastronomy, but it also introduces his staff to a new technique. “I went with this pasta to highlight an under-appreciated pasta shape,” says Nadel. “It’s a very technical process, and I wanted to showcase A Voce’s ability to diversify its mastery of different pasta shapes.” When Nadel decided to put the Bugle-esque lumachelle on the menu, his sous chefs groaned at the three-hour process of kneading, rolling, cutting, and winding individual strips of pasta around a dowel. And to keep the conical pasta intact during cooking, his cooks brush the pasta with egg wash and partially dry the shells. “I believe you can taste the difference in ingredients that have this much time and devotion put into them,” says Nadel. Labor aside, lumachelle is still rustic pasta, most often paired with broth or cream sauce and originally designed to feed not-soglamorous Benedictine nuns. To bring lumachelle into A Voce’s world of fine dining, escargot lover Nadel pairs the pasta with its namesake snails—enhancing the dish with a splash of subtle irony. Nadel braises basil-finished snails with garlic, butter, and chili flakes. The combination stands up to the egg-heavy pasta without overwhelming it—and it’s just plain fun. “We spend a lot of time working and reworking our pastas to create something special,” says Nadel. And with lumachelle, Nadel brings to life a historic pasta in a completely modern context. V I S I T S TA R C H E F S .CO M / L U M AC H E L L E F O R N A D E L’ S S N A I L S A N D L U M AC H E L L E R EC I P E . 7 K STARCH EFS.COM RISI NG STARS SUSTAI NABI LIT Y CH EF CONFIT CHICKEN THIGH, DIRTY FARRO, SUNNY EGG, AND BLACK GARLIC EVAN HANCZOR CHEF EVAN HANCZOR OF PARISH HALL – BROOKLYN, NY ADAPTED BY STARCHEFS.COM Parish Hall YIELD: 8 SERVINGS 109 North Third Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (718) 782-2602 | parishhall.net I NGREDI ENTS Confit Chicken Thigh: 1½ cups kosher salt ½ cup sugar 8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs Duck fat Although Evan Hanczor never envisioned becoming a chef, food played a pivotal role in his childhood and early adult life. He spent summers strawberry picking and cooking with his family in Florida and experienced the agricultural abundance of a new home in Redding, Connecticut. And when he set off for college, he chose gastronomically rich New Orleans and Tulane University, where he pursued studies in English and philosophy Black Garlic Sauce: Canola oil 10 grams shallot, minced 150 grams cider vinegar 15 grams maple syrup 20 grams black garlic 1 cup cream 1 cup chicken or duck stock Salt Black pepper FAST FACTS I Support Wholesome Wave in making fresh, Why: They believe ble and available to quality produce afforda es. niti mu underprivileged com ve improves access Wa e om oles Wh : out Ab fresh, healthy, and affordability of to historically e duc locally grown pro es. niti mu com ed erv ers und wholesomewave.org r 9 K STARCH EFS.COM RISI NG STARS Herb Sauce: 8 teaspoons minced seasonal herbs 8 teaspoons squash or pumpkin seed oil 8 teaspoons apple cider vinegar Juice of 4 lemons To Assemble and Serve: 8 teaspoons clarified butter 8 eggs Sea salt Black pepper Arugula or mizuna His first foray into cooking began at Ye Olde College Inn—a job to pay bills and nothing more. It was only after graduating from Tulane and moving back to Connecticut @ PARISH _HALL @ E VAN HANCZOR that Hanczor started formulating a future in food. Skipping out on culinary school, he took a position at The Dressing Room in Westport, where he developed passion for the industry and a strong technical foundation. Hanczor made a bold move to New York City in 2009, working at Locanda Verde before nabbing a spot at Brooklyn’s Egg. Two years spent with Egg’s owner—North Carolina native George Weld—exposed him to the bounty of Southern cooking, a style he soon mastered. In 2012, Weld and Hanczor developed a new project, Parish Hall, where the menu focuses on Northeastern regional cuisine—and the Northeastern community. Hanczor and his team design their menu with a holistic approach to sustainability, taking into account farm labor, community building, local agriculture, environmental responsibility, and staffing. PHOTOGRAPH BY SHAN NON STURGIS PHOTOGR APH BY SHAN NON STURGIS Tool you wish you had: Wood-burning grill Favorite food resource: The Art of Fermentation, Ideas in Food, and farmers Favorite dish you’ve ever made: Cheesesteak sandwiches at home when I was a kid Steps you’ve taken to become a sustainable restaurant: Buying responsibly, wasting little, working hard, and making people happy Dirty Farro: Canola oil 2 teaspoons minced shallot 2 teaspoons minced garlic 8 teaspoons diced duck heart 4 cups cooked farro 8 teaspoons micro mirepoix (carrot, parsnip, turnip, celery, and shallot) 4 teaspoons Dijon mustard 8 teaspoons duck liver mousse, or diced cooked duck liver Lemon juice Salt Black pepper 8 teaspoons butter N EW YORK 2013 K 10 M IXOLOGIST JEFF BELL CABEZA Y CERVEZA: PDT ADAPTED BY STARCHEFS.COM TEQUILA CABEZA, VICTORY PRIMA PILS, WORCESTERSHIRE, HABAÑERO SHRUB, POK POK SOM TAMARIND DRINKING VINEGAR, SAL DE GUSANO, AND GRAPEFRUIT MIXOLOGIST JEFF BELL OF PDT – NEW YORK, NY YIELD: 1 COCKTAIL 113 Saint Marks Place, New York, NY 10009 (212) 614-0386 | pdtnyc.com Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Jeff Bell began his career in the hospitality industry washing dishes and bussing tables at age 18. Not necessarily enamored with a life elbow-deep in suds and dirty dishware, Bell eventually found his proper spot in the business—stepping behind the bar in Seattle at the ripe and legal age of 21, while he completed his philosophy degree at the University of Washington. @ PDTNYC @ J EFFREYM BELL I Support Share our Strength fut ure eaters , and Why: Ch ildr en are our wit h foo d— no one they sho uld grow up ! sho uld starve eng th aim s to end Ab out : Sh are our Str eric a by ens uring Am in ger hun chi ldhood hea lthy foo d the e eiv all chi ldr en rec they nee d. nok idh ung ry.o rg r 11 K STARCH EFS.COM RISI NG STARS Favorite mixology resource: The PDT Cocktail Book by Jim Meehan. Favorite tool: Communication Favorite cocktail to drink: It depends on where I am. I don’t drink Bloody Marys often, but I heard that Hidetsuku Ueno at Bar Hive Five in Tokyo makes one of the best. I had to try it, and it was one of the best I’ve ever had. Favorite cocktail to make: I probably hear this question four or five times per shift, and I still don’t have a great answer. Cocktail trend you would most like to see: I would like hospitality to become trendier. After graduating in 2007, Bell knew bartending was his calling, and soon packed up and moved to New York City to hone his craft among the best and brightest. Fate was on Bell’s side. He met PDT Mixologist Jim Meehan in 2010 while bartending for Meehan’s wife Valerie at Maialino at the Gramercy Park Hotel. Meehan recognized Bell’s strong work ethic and offered him one shift a week as a barback. Bell jumped at the offer to work at one of the city’s cocktail meccas and pulled a strenuous five nights at Maialino and one at PDT. When a bartending position opened at PDT in fall 2010, Bell received his due promotion. Since then, he’s fully committed himself to PDT, ultimately working his way up to the role of head bartender. Dropping his ego at the door, Bell puts the customers’ preferences first, crafting vodka, beer, and amaro-driven cocktails with equal care and the skills of a true cocktail craftsman. PHOTOGRAPH BY SHAN NON STURGIS PHOTOGRAPH BY SHAN NON STURGIS FAST FACTS I NGREDI ENTS : M ETHOD: Sal de gusano Kosher salt 1½ ounces Tequila Cabeza ¾ ounce lime juice ¾ ounce Pok Pok Som tamarind drinking vinegar 1/8 teaspoon Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce 6 drops Bittermens Hellfire habañero shrub 5 ounces Victory Prima Pils Half grapefruit wheel In a small bowl, combine a 1:1 mixture of sal de gusano and salt. In a mixing glass filled with ice, combine tequila, lime juice, tamarind drinking vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, habañero shrub, and pilsner. Stir and strain into a chilled pilsner glass full of ice. Dip grapefruit wheel in salt mixture and place on top of the glass. Victory Prima Pils provided by Tequila Cabeza provided by N EW YORK 2013 K 12 SOM M ELI ER EMILIE PERRIER Ai Fiori 400 Fifth Ave, New York, 10018 (212) 613-8660 | aifiorinyc.com Originally from Roanne, France, Emilie Perrier came to New York City in 2003, where she began her culinary career at Murray’s Cheese Shop. She quickly switched gears from fromage to vin and received her American Sommelier certification in 2004, while working at Asiate at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Next she joined the wine team at The Modern as the assistant wine director. In 2007, Perrier moved on to become wine director at Joël Robuchon’s L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in New York City, where she fulfilled every sommelier’s dream: developing her own wine program instead of running an existing one. PHOTOGR APH BY ANTOI N ETTE BRUNO In 2009, Perrier opened Sho Shaun Hergatt in New York’s Financial District (which received one Michelin star with the help of its outstanding wine list) and was honored as a 2010 “Top Ten Best Sommelier North America” from Food and Wine Magazine. Also in 2010, Perrier joined the Michael White’s Altamarea Group to help open Ai Fiori in the Setai Hotel. She is now the resident wine director, pouring wines and serving guests with her pretense-free philosophy. Perrier reigns over a wine list hovering at 50 pages in length and boasting beloved American and New World Wines while maintaining an impressive selection of European staples. I Support City Harvest sel y wit h res tau rants Why: They wo rk so clo . ged fee ding the les s pri vile st connec ts the rve Ha y Cit C’s Ab out : NY organi zat ion s, ess ntl cou foo d ind ust ry and to help fee d ns ize vate cit cor por ati ons , and pri . ors ghb the ir hungry nei org cit yharve st. r 13 You’re in for a surprise... K STARCH EFS.COM RISI NG STARS @ AI FIORI @ALTAMAREAGROUP TIPS FOR THE SOMMELIER Be daring. Pair wines that your guests don’t expect. Be yourself. A sommelier is also the face of a restaurant. Don’t be afraid to decant wines. Always be creative. Use beer, Sherry, sake. Don’t just stick to wine. Be a sponge. Learn from the people around you! It’s team work! www.costieres-nimes.org Punches, Daisies, Pre-Speakeasy Q Advocacy By Emily Bell | Photos by Shannon Sturgis “I’ve always been focused on how things started, even when I was a kid,” says Jack McGarry, head bartender at The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog in New York’s Financial District. Consider the drinks menu at The Dead Rabbit the fruition of well-stocked childhood curiosity, weighing in at 72 drinks and 12 drink categories, with additional bottles, beers, and even a seasonal insert—all of it painstakingly resurrected from an under-studied cocktail era. “My idea for this menu was to fully illustrate the kingdom of mixed drinks before the speakeasy,” McGarry explains. “I wanted to show there was this amazing cocktail culture well before that, and there were no rules like many speakeasies today.” Despite immersing himself in the convivial, comparatively rule-free cocktail culture of the 19th century, where drinks sounded like something Dr. Seuss might prescribe—Possets and Fixes and Fizzes and Smashes—McGarry found himself with quite a bit of work on his hands. “It was a massive challenge putting the beverage program together,” he says. It was two and a half years from research to final recipe testing before he felt ready to unleash this wealth of drinks upon New York City. “I was utterly obsessed with both the history of the mixed drink and the science behind [it],” says McGarry. Part of it being his curiosity in the era itself, and, the rest, interpreting cocktails from the 19th, 18th, and even 17th centuries for modern day purveyors and palates. “The drinks back in those eras were quite sweet, due to the fact that distillers—legally or not—were only really hitting their stride with their knowledge of distillation and methods, such as wood maturation and charcoal filtration.” That meant a harsher product hitting shelves and palates, which had to be tamed with stronger, often sweeter ingredients. 94 K STARCH EFS.COM RISI NG STARS Considering how the modern drink palate has shifted toward bittered-and-strong, McGarry knew he had to remove some of that saccharine element, but he wasn’t interested in going too far in the opposite direction. His method was to “find out the key flavor base of that particular drink and run with it, until it worked.” That rebalancing could take five, or “as many as 80 attempts to get right.” But the results—a balanced interpretation of historical cocktails, where the soul of the drink remains—are well worth it. Take the Gin Daisy à la Paul, named for its inspiration—in this case Charlie Paul’s Recipes of American and Other Iced Drinks. The recipe has McGarry not only tweaking a Daisy, but a Daisy-style particular to the 1870s and 1880s. The Daisy of that era “was an altogether different proposition” from the gin, soda, grenadine style more common in the early 1900s, says McGarry. “It was basically a shortened version of punch, and each bartender had the choice of which cordial they used. Jerry Thomas used orgeat and orange curacao; Harry Johnson used Chartreuse, etc. Charlie Paul used orgeat also.” For his version, McGarry swaps in pistachio syrup and Genever—popular in Paul’s time—for malted roundness fleshed out by soft apricot eau de vie. He balances that with cucumber soda, savory spice notes from Combier Kummel, and a judicious dose of absinthe for what he calls “a Gin Daisy with a reinforced herbaceous note.” Considering what went into its production—and whatever other magic makes a 72-drink list “consumer accessible”—we’d call that an understatement. Gin Daisy à la Paul Mixologist Jack McGarry of The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog – New York, NY Adapted by StarChefs.com Yield: 1 cocktail INGREDIENTS METHOD 1½ ounces Bols Barrel-aged Genever ¾ ounce apricot eau de vie ½ ounce Combier Kummel 1 ounce lemon juice ½ ounce pistachio syrup 5 dashes Pernod Absinthe Cucumber soda Nutmeg Combine the Genever, eau de vie, Combier Kummel, lemon, pistachio syrup, and absinthe in a Toby shaker. Add ice and shake vigorously. Strain into an ice-filled moustache cup and top with cucumber soda. Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg. N EW YORK 2013 K 95