Far better is a dried-scallop chip: anyone who has ever scraped the pan after cooking scallops will recognize the flavor.

NEWYORKER: Aska

At the end of cooking you should have a dry pan and tender, succulent leaves.

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When cooking the fish skin-side down, be sure to coat the pan completely with oil, and to watch the fillet closely.

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"Instead of pan-roasting 10 chickens, with barbecue you're cooking a large piece of meat all at once, it's a bit more efficient, " says Mr. Perry Lang, founder and former owner of Daisy May's BBQ in New York City.

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She cracked a couple of eggs into the pan, broke up the yolks, and stirred them with a cooking fork, then sliced a muffin and put it into the toaster.

NEWYORKER: Free Radicals

The following year Lagasse jumped from the frying pan into the fire when he was asked to host a pilot cooking show for a new cable station, the Food Network.

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Chef Clyde Nelson describes his cooking as "innovative Western, " an eclectic style that often features local ingredients given haute preparations (pan-seared tournedos of bison with a porcini demi-glace, for instance).

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