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Momofuku alum, Samuel Yoo, is a rising star and chef/owner of Golden Diner in New York City’s China Town. Fusing his fine dining background with a reverence for traditional American diner fare, Golden Diner serves Latin, Chinese, Greek and “Brooklyn vegan” inspired cuisines. Samuel Yoo talks about techniques for making vegetables shine, and how eating in Queens diners in his

Chef Mike Pyers is chief culinary officer at three-Michelin-starred restaurant, Eleven Madison Park, and shows us how he makes silken tofu with tomato and anise hyssop. He makes the tofu in-house using locally produced soymilk. The tofu sets in a steam box for 5 minutes, then is topped with tomato confit, fresh tomatoes, Calabrian chilies, and anise hyssop. Watch the full documenta

Chef Josh Hardnen, creative culinary director at Eleven Madison Park in Manhattan, shows us how he makes sunflower salad with beans and epazote. The dish utilizes all parts of a sunflower blossom. The core of the sunflowers have an artichoke-like flavor and texture, and are cooked in saffron and white wine. The petals are served three ways: baked, fermented, and fresh. Watch the fu

Daniel Humm is the chef and owner of Eleven Madison Park in Manhattan, which has held three Michelin stars since 2012 and was ranked first by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2017. In 2021, Eleven Madison Park famously transitioned to a plant-based menu. Chef Daniel Humm talks about how shutting down the restaurant during the pandemic gave him time to think about his legacy, an

Michaela Duke, sous chef at Michelin-starred restaurant, Dirt Candy in New York City, shows us a whimsical take on corn tamales. She starts the dish with an intensely-flavored corn puree dotted with mole, corn salsa verde, and raw baby corn slices. She tops the puree with a corn tamale steamed inside of a corn mold. Watch the full documentary and find recipes here!

Michaela Duke, sous chef at Michelin-starred restaurant, Dirt Candy in New York City, shows us how she makes Zucchini Spring Roll Rangoon. She starts with a salad of torn zucchini, squash blossoms, and bamboo, dressed in vegan fish sauce and lime juice. She creates a wanton-like shell by frying a zucchini dusted in cornstarch. The crispy zucchini shell is filled with a creamy puree

Michaela Duke is sous chef at Dirt Candy in New York City's Lower East Side. Dirt Candy is a vegetable-focused restaurant with a 5-course tasting menu. She talks about the restaurant’s evolution since it opened in 2008, as well as the culinary team’s creative process in developing the seasonal menu. Dirt Candy’s Michelin star brings in more destination diners, and Chef Michae

Amanda Cohen is the James Beard-nominated chef and owner of Dirt Candy, the Michelin-starred vegetable restaurant in New York City's Lower East Side. Dirt Candy was the first vegetable-focused restaurant in New York City, and a pioneer of the plant-forward movement. Dirt Candy was also the first restaurant in the city to eliminate tipping and share profits with its employees. In th

Inside the Plant-Forward Kitchen: New York is the second edition of a new educational video produced by The Culinary Institute of America—a first-of-its-kind video reference library documenting the best of plant-forward cuisine. In this documentary series, we explore the markets and restaurants of New York with the chefs who are on the leading edge of this culinary mega-trend. We

A sabich is traditionally pita or laffa bread stuffed with fried eggplant, hard-boiled egg, chopped salad, amba, and tahini sauce. It’s an Iraqi Jewish street food that has become a staple of Israeli cuisine. This creative twist features watermelon salad and watermelon rind "amba." Amba is traditionally a super pungent, tangy mango sauce popular in Iraq and Israel. In this versio