

So if you think about it, anything is a plancha, like a sauté pan or a griddle.
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What’s one technique everyone should know? How to cook à la plancha. Sometimes I like to plate salads using chopsticks it’s a great chance to concentrate and relax. I also like to use chopsticks as tweezers they can bring a level of sophistication when you cook. I use them for everything: to toss salads, to turn a piece of meat in the pan, to flip croquettes in the Fryolator, to whisk eggs for omelets, to stir eggs into fried rice when I make that for my daughters. What’s the best cheap cooking gadget? The cheapest gadget-and you don’t even have to spend a dime-is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. She even had 10 Spanish recipes in there. It was an important book for me when I opened my pop-up, America Eats Tavern, in Washington, DC, last year we offered a Mary Randolph tasting menu with her mock turtle soup. The cookbooks that preceded it were all copies of English books. It wasn’t the first cookbook printed in America, but you could argue it was the first cookbook printed in America written by an American. If Americans want to know what America is, they need to know that book. I think my favorite book right now would be The Virginia Housewife, by Mary Randolph. What’s your favorite cookbook of all time? I keep changing. So I predict paella will be the next big thing. It gives you many options, and you can feed a lot of people once you get the hang of it. It has all the right components: You cook it outside like you do for barbecue, but at the next level of sophistication. I’ve also been making a big push for it over the past year-I truly believe everyone in America will know how to make paella within the next 50 years, and will cook paella like they now do barbecue on the 4th of July. What’s your most requested recipe, the one dish you’re most known for? More and more, my paella. F&W Star Chef » See All F&W Chef Superstars Superstar Spanish chef José Andrés tells Food & Wine about his passion for paella, cooking à la plancha and why chopsticks are the perfect kitchen tool.
