Producing dishes instead of simply consuming them?
Mikasa produces dishes, silverware and accessories under the brand names of Mikasa, Studio Nova, Home Beautiful and Christopher Stuart.
Ducasse's proxy, Jocelyn Herland, produces dishes that are genuinely beautiful to the eye, but less memorable to the tastebud than that triple-star rating might suggest.
As the weather heats up, they combine their culinary expertise with available fresh fruits and vegetables to produce dishes that capture the essence of summer.
There is a culinary experimentation that is not merely faddish, and there is an effort, to work with vegetables and spices to produce dishes of wonder and delicacy.
In these groups, the wilted and the braised are more likely to make satisfying main dishes; the other two, steamed and superslow, produce dishes that feel like sides, although they're hardy enough, especially those in the last group.
In the expensive Polanco district (the Knightsbridge of the city), a handful of exciting restaurants are using European cooking techniques on Mexican culinary heritage to produce dishes unlike anything you've eaten before.
Since the Food and Drug Administration does not permit tobacco as a food ingredient because it is not generally recognized as safe, a manufacturer would not be able to produce dishes with tobacco and sell them in supermarkets.
But his idiom remains the same: an eclectic but focused style that draws from American, French, Italian and Spanish techniques and ingredients to produce dishes that ring with fresh, energetic flavors.
Bobby Flay, the chef, produces dishes like New Mexican spice-rubbed pork tenderloin with bourbon-ancho chili sauce and sweet potato tamale with crushed pecan butter, and ancho chili honey-glazed salmon with spicy black bean sauce and roasted jalapeño crema.
The open kitchen takes center stage in the minimalist space, producing dishes like cassoulet pot pie with homemade sausage, tomato-basil alphabet soup with a wagyu beef sloppy Joe, and "instant sangría": macerated fruit, homemade rainbow sorbet and red wine.
