beaten, seared, and sauced by jonathan dixon - excerpt

8/7/2019 Beaten, Seared, and Sauced by Jonathan Dixon - Excerpt

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The people and stories portrayed in th is book are all t rue; however,

the author has changed the names of a few of those people in an ef fort

to minimize intrusions on their privacy.

Copyright 2011 by Jonathan Dixon

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of the

Crown Publishing Group, a div ision of Random House, Inc., New York.

www.crownpublishing.com

www.clarksonpotter.com

CLARKSON POTTER is a trademark and POTTER with colophon

is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dixon, Jonathan.

Beaten, seared, and sauced / Jonathan Dixon. 1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Dixon, Jonathan. 2. CooksUnited StatesBiography.

3. Culi nary Institute of America. I. Title.

TX649.D59 A3 2011

641.5092dc22 2010040145

[B]

ISBN 978-0-307-58903-3

Printed in the United States of America

Design by Stephanie Huntwork

Jacket photographs Jet ta Product ions ; David Atkinson (chef );

Rubberball/Mike Kemp (egg)

1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

For Jane and Peter Dixon

And for Nelly Reifler


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sauce goingvinegar, shallots, and wine reduced and then added to a

measure of sauce espagnoles, seasoned, and finished with a goodchunk of butter. Sean gathered up what wed need for the spaetzle and

when hed gotten everything, I joined him.

Coyac was at our side before we even started mixing. You guys

work like pigs, he said. Look at this, he said as he gestured at our

table. There was flour all over the place, green bean tips scattered

across the table surface, piles of crumpled plastic that Joe had used for

the pork, rogue pieces of shallot, and an empty container of wine vin-

egar on my cutting board. I dont care if its all your messhe

pointed to Seanor none of your mess, but you do not let your sta-

tion get like this. He looked at me. Whats the matter with you? How

can you work like this? Do you live like this at home?

He moved to Joe. Why is this pork still out? Put it away. Put it

away. Now! Come on, lets go. Wheres the spaetzle batter? You havent

done it yet? Oh, for Gods sake. For Gods sake. Come on! Why is that

sauce at a boil? You know what simmer means? What does it mean?Tell me. I opened my mouth and then closed it. Okay, we can look it

up after you turn the heat down. What? Do you need an invitation?

Turn it down! Its probably burned already. He walked away, then

turned back. Before you do one more thing, clean that table. Wash

your cutting boards, wipe that table down. Change your bains-

marie. Theres no way youre going to be ready for service. I cant

believe this.

I felt a flush of heat in my face. All of us kept our heads down and

did what we were told. Later, Sean and I stood over the spatezle

batter.

Its too thin, I said. I think we need to thicken it up.

No, its too thick. I was about to thin it out.

Coyac yelled from behind us, The spaetzle is fine! Then he

screamed. Cook! Cook! Cook!We did.

Two tables over from us, Ox and a guy mysteriously named Twitchwere teamed with Lombardi. Ox and Twitch were both nice guys but


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