"could you just use bacon fat and red wine?"

[burnunit]

Joel Robuchon appeared on Top Chef recently and I had a sudden heightened understanding of something that's nagged at me for a while. I put this in a comments thread on facebook, but I wanted to capture it here in one place

Comments

[combustafarian]

This is freaking fabulous. Thank you.

I have always been uncomfortable with the vernacular use of the word "deconstruction," primarily because of my experience with literary deconstruction in undergrad and graduate literature classes. However, what people use "deconstruction" for in a casual context is absolutely something that needs a word - the breaking down and reassembling of (or recontextualizing of) a thing from its core components. "Décomposée" gives me that word.

Awesome.

[birdfigment]

I want to like it - and as a foodie I do - but I can't help but immediately think "decomposed" when reading that word. And that's accurate, but unfortunately also describes things I'd never eat!

[besendorfer]

Happy Birthday!
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