Dawn Bryan specializes in private chef and catering services: casual family style, formal multi-course or buffet style meals prepared in your home or delivered. Her food is flavorful, beautifully presented and the dining experience is always professionally executed. Her food philosophy is that it's possible to eat for pleasure and satisfaction as well as for the wellness of body and spirit. Besides providing fine dining experiences she is adept at food and wine paring, and preparing meals for those with dietary restrictions. |
"At the heart of my cooking the a core philosophy about ingredients. No matter how great your techniques or your ability to transform food, you must start with the very best ingredients. Just as a vintner cannot make great wine with mediocre grapes, a chef can't make a great meal with poor ingredients. Period. To work with the very best ingredients you have to source them from the sustainable practitioners who know that flavor comes from nutrient rich soil and feed. Like my ancestors who believed the growing environment should be rich in various creatures and microbes and avoided the use of chemicals or hormones, I honor this tradition. And by supporting the producers who honor sustainably and raise organically, we strengthen a system that increases nutritional values, flavors and a healthier planet."
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As Julia Child once said "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces- just good food from fresh ingredients." A great meal can be created without excessive meddling and complicated ingredients. Start with the very best ingredients, use good technique and the careful use of sauce, oil, herb, spice and ferments...ah! Lovers dancing in harmony!
I am not a "molecular gastronomist". Although I do appreciate the high level of that art form and science, I would rather not eat food that had so many hands all over it. The best thing to come out of that movement is better Sous Vede cooking tools, something for every chefs tool belt. What I find more fascinating is the science of balancing the sensations of flavor (salty, sweet, sour and bitter, umami and fat), making for the most entertaining and satisfying dining experience. |
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