How to tame a wildflower

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European Vegetable Specialities, based in Salinas, California, is the world's biggest producer of radicchio, a selectively bred descendent of the wild flower, chicory. Lucio Gomiera, co-founder of the company, now plans to promote another chicory crop called puntarelle.

Author: Kuh, Patric
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Gourmet
Subject: Food/cooking/nutrition
ISSN: 0017-2553
Year: 2000
Usage, Product information, Natural history, Chicory, Radicchio, Gomiera, Lucio, European Vegetable Specialities

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Mr. Clean

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Chef Gray Kunz of the Cafe Gray in New York believes in clean and completed kitchen work. He believes that cleaning the ingredients is a way to extract them from all the fuss of a professional kitchen and return them to a perfect state.

Author: Kuh, Patric
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Gourmet
Subject: Food/cooking/nutrition
ISSN: 0017-2553
Year: 2004
United States, Management dynamics, Chefs, Kunz, Gray

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When I was green

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The experience of being a young cook in a restaurant in Paris, France, is described. The significance of being able to cook asparagus properly and a selection of recipes for asparagus are presented.

Author: Kuh, Patric
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Gourmet
Subject: Food/cooking/nutrition
ISSN: 0017-2553
Year: 2001
Personal narratives, Cooking, Restaurants, Paris, France, Cookery (Asparagus), Asparagus

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