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STAR INGREDIENTS
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One of the most important steps in cooking is to select and care for the ingredients that are used. Everything that goes into a dish determines the taste and outcome of the recipe. In this episode, we visit Le Bernardin’s “garde manger”— a term that restaurants use that means ‘keeper of the food’ or ‘guard of the food’. This particular station in the kitchen is responsible for the first courses and cold plates — like salads and cold ingredients like smoked salmon or caviar. Because many times these plates are the first taste that a diner eats, it is extremely important that the flavors be at their very best. Later, we will travel to the west coast to meet David Kinch who is the chef/owner of Manresa in Los Gatos, California. Chef Kinch is so serious about knowing exactly where his ingredients come from that he has an exclusive partnership with one farm called Love Apple Farm. It is owned and run by Cynthia Sandberg, and the farm grows all of his vegetables to his exacting standards. Because so many people are gardening at home and because there are farmers markets popping up in towns all over the U.S., I thought that I would show you how to take the inspiration from California and teach you a simple, fresh seared salmon dish with something fresh from the garden — pea-shoots with ginger-soy vinaigrette.  
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