Good chefs know that amazing food comes from amazing ingredients.  They turn over produce at farm stands looking for the tomatoest tomato. Or the potatoest potato.  Quality is the number one ingredient in remarkable restaurants.  However there’s another unwritten rule of culinary wizards. Despite the name, carpaccio is an ultra simple dish: shaved, raw beef.  It made it’s first impression in Venice Italy.  Named for a famous painter, its is the presentation of raw sirloin, olive oil, lemon juice with […]

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