Both bourbon-glazed, grilled chicken ($11) and Savannah chicken ($11) areelevated by smoky bacon and offer mild, harmonious ingredients to the nonbarbecue types.
The result is not a fiery Indian version, but the satiny smoothness of offerings like aromatic peanut curry ($11) full of chicken and tempered by its coconut milk and vegetables, and the mild mix of harmonious ingredients including steamed vegetables found in the chicken or beef amazing rama ($15).
The common denominator, according to Trang Tran, the chef, is a harmonious use of ingredients, especially sugar.
The eggless, though rich Caesar salad ($6.50) was a substantial treat, as was the harmonious marriage of ingredients (goat cheese, dried cranberries, walnuts and cider vinaigrette) in the country salad ($8).
Its impasto of mint, sage, parsley and thyme set the tone for a harmonious palette of herbal ingredients that included lemony sorrel in a side of large-shot couscous, baby fennel sprinkled over splints of roasted eggplant, mint-lime yogurt sauce and a sprinkling of hyssop flowers.
Whitworth served as yet another mentor, as well as a charge, the relationship benefitting from mutual regard — a key ingredient of harmonious collaboration with Zuckerman.
Ducasse also said the key aspects of washoku are both the locally-sourced ingredients, and 'the harmonious Zen technique of preparation.' Several beautifully presented Bento boxes later, and a peek into the spotless, calm and organised environment where washoku is traditionally prepared, it's easy to see the appeal of Bento.
But with each successive quaff, the flavors opened up, revealing a rich, complex tequila that stopped just short of overpowering the harmonious blend of the other ingredients.
The Japanese, he told me, define umami as "an over-all harmonious state of perfection where the ingredients come together, a really rounded and harmonious dish.
The upshot of the discussion is that all stable entities (mixtures) represent a harmonious equilibrium of their otherwise unlimited ingredients.
One school consists of the grinders, who like to chop the ingredients to a fine harmonious mush.
