All of these projects can be tweaked, adapted, or changed based on your personality and interests. These are all just starters.
Research the process, styles, the methods of cooking, planning, measuring, sketching, wide use of ingredients, etc. and cook the recipes with your own unique twist. Practice and record your practice for each step of the process that leads to the final project.
TIP: Good quality ingredients are essential!
TIP: Good quality ingredients are essential!
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Herbs & SpicesFind a professional chef that you like. Research his or her creative process. Choose a complex recipe with a wide variety of herbs and spices such as a béchamel sauce, velouté A velouté sauce, a soup, etc. and recreate it with your own twist. Analyze and reverse engineer how the recipe is made: what techniques do you need to learn to create the recipe (eg. planning, knife skills, sautéing vegetables, controlling thickness, making stock, etc.)?
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Oh The Possibilities
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Redesign a RecipeFind a professional chef that you like (like Grant Achatz). Research his or her creative process. Choose a complex recipe from this chef and recreate it with your own twist. Analyze and reverse engineer how the recipe is made: what techniques do you need to learn to create the recipe (eg. planning, knife skills, quartering and trussing a chicken, making stock, sautéing vegetables, controlling thickness, etc.)?
Practice and record your practice for each concept.
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Knife SkillsFind a professional chef that you like. Research his or her creative process. Choose a recipe with a focus on learning knife skills and find a recipe that requires a wide variety of those skills (chop, dice, chiffonade, julienne, slice, etc.) from this chef and recreate it with your own twist. Analyze and reverse engineer how the recipe is made: what techniques do you need to learn to create the recipe (eg. planning, more specific knife skills, quartering and trussing a chicken, making stock, etc.)?
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Create Graphic RecipesPart 1: Find a professional graphic designer or company that you like similar to your intended project. Research the creators and the process they go through to create their graphics. Analyze and reverse engineer the graphics: what techniques are being used (eg. brainstorming, planning, color psychology, layout, materials, photography, patterns, etc.)?
Part 2: Find a professional chef that you like. Research his or her creative process. Choose a complex recipe from this chef and recreate it with your own twist. Analyze and reverse engineer how the recipe is made: what techniques do you need to learn to create the recipe (eg. planning, knife skills, quartering and trussing a chicken, making stock, sautéing vegetables, controlling thickness, etc.)? Practice and record your practice for each concept. Step 3: Design and create your own graphic recipe. You could potentially create your own recipe book with these graphic recipes. |