Ethics

A Mediocre Meal Explained

By Ed Brayton

When I was in New York I had Sunday brunch at Perilla, a restaurant owned by the winner of the first season of Top Chef, Harold Dieterle. And today I read this from the chef:

And oh man, cooking brunch sucks. I've got to be honest. It's one of those things where if you don't cook eggs all week long and you're just open on the weekend, people want eggs very particularly. I know I do. They've got to be perfect. And you can tell whose cooked eggs before and who hasn't, in a high-pressure, high-speed environment. Cooking an egg, it's one of those things, there's not so much gray area. If you want them over easy, it's over easy.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 01, 2009 (boomark / email).