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6
ServingsEasy
Published 1999
This dish is interesting to me from a mechanical standpoint. I needed to figure out how to cook and serve duck in a way that was suitable to the style and portion size of the French Laundry. I didn’t want to roast the duck breast whole and then cut it, because it tends to bleed out—all its juices go right into the sauce that has been painstakingly degreased and reduced and brought to perfection. I tried making a ragout of duck breast, but it didn’t have the exactness I wanted. So I decided