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Extrachelle

The recipes provided on this page follow four essential secrets:

Intuition, 

Generosity,

Creativity, 

and Love.


Mathematical precision has no place here.

Intro

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THE DAILY BREAD PRAYER

Bread is often taken for granted. Before any cooking activities, this prayer should be kept in mind.


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magic FORMULAS

Art is a way to escape dull routine & boredom. 

The genius eye of a cook observes the ordinary in ingredients with curiosity, generosity & a new power of imagination, transforming the usual & boring into less ordinary.  

A cookbook after all is not very different from a grimoire.


"Bunch of Asparagus" by Edouard Manet, 1880.

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PIzza philosophy

The pizza philosophy goes by the rule:

ONE OLIVE PER BITE.

The one essential secret of a good cook is Generosity. Especially when it comes to olives. Stinginess destroys recipes.

Portrait of the artist's mother following the pizza philosophy rule, by James McNeill Whistler.


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LA SAGESSE DE LA GRAND-MÈRE DE JACQUES

"Ne se mettre à genoux que pour récolter le persil et les feuilles de menthe pour fair du Tabboulé."


- Jacques Brel (edited)

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LESS IS MORE

Sometimes, less is more. This also applies for food. I recently discovered one of the  best sandwiches I've tasted in my life in a little old snack in Portugal and it consisted of just two ingredients. 

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the real deal

Cooking is not only about ingredients but cooking tools! Storing olives in a clay jar is not the same thing as storing them in plastic. 

Mathematical formulas for cooking can only be applied as following: Cooking food in a clay pot ≠ as cooking in metal. 


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