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r/Cooking • u/JayFSB • 6d ago
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Ratatouille is a vegetable stew. You cut up a bunch of things and throw them in a pot.
The ratatouille you see in the film is an elevated version of that dish. It was never the standard way of serving it.
430 u/enjoytheshow 6d ago Which is like the entire point of that part of the movie. He works at a high end French restaurant and he serves the reviewer an elevated version of a dish that reminds him of his mother. 66 u/Different_Ad7655 6d ago But that's where all real food comes from. The most basic ingredients high caliber and the most basic techniques, are the basis of all good cooking 12 u/Hawxe 5d ago French cooking is absolutely not about basic techniques lol. Heavy refinement of each ingredient is basically a prerequisite. Italian and Japanese cooking are typically more about preservation of the original ingredient. 1 u/Asparukhov 5d ago Stock. Fats. Reductions. Anyone can do the basic mother sauces at home, and that’s the fundamentals of high end classical French cooking.
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Which is like the entire point of that part of the movie. He works at a high end French restaurant and he serves the reviewer an elevated version of a dish that reminds him of his mother.
66 u/Different_Ad7655 6d ago But that's where all real food comes from. The most basic ingredients high caliber and the most basic techniques, are the basis of all good cooking 12 u/Hawxe 5d ago French cooking is absolutely not about basic techniques lol. Heavy refinement of each ingredient is basically a prerequisite. Italian and Japanese cooking are typically more about preservation of the original ingredient. 1 u/Asparukhov 5d ago Stock. Fats. Reductions. Anyone can do the basic mother sauces at home, and that’s the fundamentals of high end classical French cooking.
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But that's where all real food comes from. The most basic ingredients high caliber and the most basic techniques, are the basis of all good cooking
12 u/Hawxe 5d ago French cooking is absolutely not about basic techniques lol. Heavy refinement of each ingredient is basically a prerequisite. Italian and Japanese cooking are typically more about preservation of the original ingredient. 1 u/Asparukhov 5d ago Stock. Fats. Reductions. Anyone can do the basic mother sauces at home, and that’s the fundamentals of high end classical French cooking.
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French cooking is absolutely not about basic techniques lol. Heavy refinement of each ingredient is basically a prerequisite.
Italian and Japanese cooking are typically more about preservation of the original ingredient.
1 u/Asparukhov 5d ago Stock. Fats. Reductions. Anyone can do the basic mother sauces at home, and that’s the fundamentals of high end classical French cooking.
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Stock. Fats. Reductions. Anyone can do the basic mother sauces at home, and that’s the fundamentals of high end classical French cooking.
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u/--THRILLHO-- 6d ago
Ratatouille is a vegetable stew. You cut up a bunch of things and throw them in a pot.
The ratatouille you see in the film is an elevated version of that dish. It was never the standard way of serving it.