From keeping a tidy kitchen to finishing dishes with a dash of fish sauce, these are the best cooking tips and tricks our Food & Wine Best New Chefs learned from their mothers.
Audrey Morgan is an associate food editor at Food & Wine with over seven years of experience covering food and drinks. She has held staff positions at Liquor.com and Food Network Magazine, and her work has also been featured in Saveur, Men's Health, and The Bump.There’s culinary school and there’s professional kitchen experience…but many a chef’s cooking journey started right at home.
“Before I even started cooking professionally I would watch my mom eagerly in the kitchen when she would cook up traditional Vietnamese dishes. Whether it be soups, braises, or stir-fries, she always insisted on using a dash of fish sauce to make it taste better — especially if it was missing that ‘umph.’ She also insisted on using rock sugar to balance out dishes versus using white table sugar because it brought on a more natural flavor and subtle sweetness.
— Naomi Pomeroy, 2009 F&W Best New Chef and chef/owner of Expatriate and Cornet Custard in Portland, Oregon“My mum loved baking and stressed the importance of chilling butter when making her coconut pie. She would chill the formed pie crust , and I have never seen a flakier pie since.” “One of my favorite dishes my mother is a Southern-style cornbread stuffing.
“Growing up, my mom did most of the cooking on a daily basis. I’m not quite sure how she got it all done — if it wasn’t a fully from-scratch meal, she would integrate prepared elements in a way that would transform them into something elevated. She seasoned her food perfectly, and we always had enough to feed our friends that happened to be around.
— Ravi Kapur, 2016 F&W Best New Chef and chef/owner of Liloliho Yacht Club, Good Good Culture Club, and Olehna Spirit in San Francisco“My mom doesn’t cook at all. My father did all the cooking at home and the restaurant. She only recently learned how to boil eggs. So if she taught me anything, it’s that eating well is the most important part of cooking.”“My mom is the most generous cook I know. She never fails to make just a little too much food, and she instilled this in me.
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