Harvest Eating Podcast-plant Based Vegan Recipes

Through the years I have taught people through this podcast, cookbook, videos, tv shows, magazine articles, and in-person culinary demonstrations many different culinary wives' tales or falsehoods. Stuff I was taught and just always did….because…that’s the way you do it….. As a young chef training under older more experienced chefs, most of them graduates of European or American culinary institutions, I was taught the “way to do things” and little details that I have seen parroted on TV and elsewhere for decades. I’d like to dispel some of them today. A good example of this would be letting meat rest to “reabsorb the juices”. The meat is not reabsorbing juices, the juice is in there and has not gone anywhere….they just are moving fast due to heat. Water is still when cold, but moves when simmering or boiling because the atoms react to heat and create energy. So, when we remove meat from the oven, as it cools the juices are less likely to spill out, but there is no reabsorbing going on. Seasoning meat and thi