Scandalous: fake cheese used at fancy restaurant

But it’s not what you think. At Le Bernardin, one of the highest calibre restaurants in NYC, Eric Ripert and his chefs use “cheap, fake Swiss cheese full of artificial flavors” as a baseline to normalize everyone’s palates so that sauces can be judged fairly in the kitchen.

In terms of flavor, that cheese tastes identical all year long…so it give us a reference, and we can judge fairly.

Cheese. Is there anything it can’t do?

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