This style of cooking looked to create garnishes and sauces whose function is to add to the flavor of the dish, rather than mask flavors like the heavy sauces and ornate garnishes of the past.
He explained that real-time visualization is done via smart sampling, which he called the "secret sauce" of the function.
"Knowing there's a zone for everything makes it easier to just go and find," says Bennett, whose refrigerator contents have been grouped based on flavor profile and function: Asian sauces, American sauces, fruits, vegetables and pickled things each have a designated section.
The wasabi, sauce, and rice, all function as arrows pointing towards the fish, making it the center of attention, everything is designed to allow the diners to taste the flavor of the fish.
Instead of tomato sauce, you can use spaghetti sauce.
But most moles have no chocolate at all! Mole is an old, old idea in Mexican cooking: a mortar-and-pestle combo of ingredients that functions as a sauce.
The secret sauce was a simple, yet fully functioned messaging and document-sharing app offered for free.
In a poetic ode to the flour, in which he actually sites poetry written about the chickpea, Ottolenghi also describes chickpea flour's function in soups and sauces.
Stint on the gherkins or capers, or miss one out, and you will have a sauce that is too sweet to perform its function.
You can use either tomato sauce or taco sauce.
