Cooking is one thing; preparing fine cuisine is something else entirely.
It’s art.
By that measure, Desiree is an
artist. Day after day, she creates fine meals and serves them with a sense of
presentation. Even the preparations carry an artistry of their own—onions and
garlic diced to uniform size, a sprig of color here, a dash of spice there,
stirring with grace rather than abandon.
Yesterday, while making fried rice,
she set about pan-frying sausage, garlic, and onions. Each demands its own
balance of heat and time. Yet with one pan on a single burner, she handled it
with ease—lightly searing the sausage first, then sliding the pan just so to
divide the burner into zones of heat.
Simple, effective, and unexpectedly
beautiful.
“I like the look of that,” I told her
as she worked the pan, and I reached for my phone to capture the moment.
—Mitchell Hegman
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