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Rajiv Vakani Seeing Food Differently Insights

A kitchen guide

Seeing Food Differently

Noticing what was already in front of you.

Not recipes. A path of five ways of seeing, from what reaches your counter to what the dish needs now.

Enter at Starting State

The rest of the path waits below.

The path

What reaches your senses begins with what reached your counter.

  1. read

    Starting State

    What you’re actually working with

  2. perceive

    Flavor

    What you’re experiencing

  3. shape

    Knife Cuts

    What structure is for

  4. transform

    Heat

    What this should become

  5. steer

    Steering

    What the dish needs now

Then you keep walking it, every time you cook.

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