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Deconstruction of Classical Food Dishes

Deconstruction is the process of taking a traditional dish and reconfiguring it giving equal importance to each element of the dish. In other words, there is no "Center of the Plate" or hierarchy to the elements. So a classic Indian chicken curry dish might change to something like chicken consomme, coconut gelee, curry ice cream, rasin-onion relish, banana crisp. You might be saying, "Where's the chicken!!!" But rather than having an oversized, glutonous piece of protein on the plate, you simply have another small and tasty dish!

Chef Whitney Werner