Going against the general societal trend, the mission of the latest cookbook that Anna and Kristina will be testing is to show the public that cooking with "Fat", specifically animal fat, is a good thing, especially in adding flavor to food. In four and a half hours, they are preparing five dishes: roasted marrow bones, miso & orange roasted pork belly, vegetable cake, chicken Kiev, and beignets. They have added pressure for the meal in that their executive chef guest taster is
Andrey Durbach, not only the chef of a group of high end restaurants in Vancouver including La Buca, but also a former high school colleague of Kristina's who intimidated her then and intimidates her now. Hopefully an admission by Chef Andrey about high school life will soften the blow if he doesn't like the food. In addition, they taste test store bought salted butters against their own home whipped butter. And they product test various thermometers specifically for deep frying.
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