When sous-chef Barry Frish emerged from the kitchen, Purkayastha produced two items from his bag: a balsamic vinegar made with truffles and a truffle-acacia honey.

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Everything stalls the union of the thirtyish San Francisco couple formed by Tom Solomon (Jason Segel), a skilled sous-chef, and Violet Barnes (Emily Blunt), who has a Ph.

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But since the menus are decided by committee every day with input from French-American sous-chef Philippe Shapiro and others, dishes can veer in any direction, such as the crowd-pleasing Vietnamese-style lobster salad with vermicelli, mango, and a carrot vinaigrette that turned up as a starter one night.

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Aura revisits old friends, notably an aggressive and dissolute socialite (Jemima Kirke), and makes new ones a better-known videomaker (Alex Karpovsky), who leverages her crush into a place to crash, and a sous-chef (David Call) at a restaurant where she hostesses who wants the usual, in an unusual way.

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Later, when everyone was recovering from the annual tryptophan induced coma, I asked my Gen-Y sous chef what she really thought.

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The kitchen of the French restaurant, Caprice, is run by the former sous chef from Paris' Michelin two-star Le Cinq.

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When we get back to the restaurant, Wolfgang is in his signature white chef's jacket and instructing his sous-chefs.

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Noma alumni who have gone on to create their own successful restaurants include Blaine Wetzel, a Noma chef de partie who runs a locally sourced restaurant on Lummi Island, two hours north of Seattle, and Noma sous chef Jesper Kirketerp, whose new Copenhagen eatery Restaurant Radio offers an accessible bistro-like riff on Noma's cerebral approach.

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