The chapter I almost cut

Chapter 1 · Mindset

Ten full pages from the guide, on what to do with the first six months in a serious kitchen. Not a sheet — an actual chapter.

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Opens as a PDF. Ten pages, straight out of the guide.


Out now

You have chapter one. There are seven.

Cuisine Étoilée — a working guide to the standards, technique and mindset of the world’s best kitchens. 172 pages, written plainly, because the problem was never that these things are difficult. It is that nobody would explain them.

  • Organization — and what it actually buys you
  • The cold side and the hot side
  • Sauce, meat cooking, advanced plating

Plus three specialities commissioned from chefs at Alchemist, Eleven Madison Park and Mirazur.

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Sam Dill — over 10,000 hours in some of the world’s best restaurants.
Cuisine Étoilée · cuisineetoilee.com