Anthony Bourdain (June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was famous for his culinary travels, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. He was also a chef and a writer. This article was originally published in The New Yorker in 1999. Read before eating: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this.
People who order their meat well-done perform a valuable service for those of us in the business who are cost-conscious: they pay for the privilege of eating our garbage. In many kitchens, there’s a time-honored practice called “save for well-done.” When one of the cooks finds a particularly unlovely piece of steak—tough, riddled with nerve and connective tissue, off the hip end of the loin, and maybe a little stinky from age—he’ll dangle it in the air and say, “Hey, Chef, whaddya want me to do with this?”…
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