46 Points of Ingredient Know-How

1. Crushing Spices

2. Grill-Roasting Peppers

3. Butterflying Flank Steak

4. Making Garlic Oil

5. Butterflying Short Ribs

6. Soaking Dried Beans

7. Boning a Rib Roast for Seasoning

8. Trimming Tenderloins

9. Procuring a Pig

10. Tying a Crown Roast

11. Frenching a Rack

12. Purchasing a Rack of Lamb

13. Making Lamb Steaks

14. Making Preserved Lemons

15. Tying up a Bird for Grill-Roasting

16. Seasoning a Whole Bird for the Grill

17. Vertically Grill-Roasting Poultry

18. Spatchcocking a Chicken

19. Halving Poultry

20. Cutting a Chicken into Parts

21. Removing the Tendon from a Poultry Breast

22. Boning a Breast

23. Removing the Bones from a Whole Bird

24. Pitting a Mango

25. Slashing Fish Skin

26. Removing the Central Skeleton from Whole Fish

27. Filleting a Monkfish Tail

28. Carving a Whole Fish

29. Removing Pin Bones

30. Buying Flounder Fillets

31. Buying Halibut

32. Cleaning Soft-Shell Crabs

33. Eating Blue Crabs

34. Cleaning and Cracking Dungeness Crabs

35. Splitting a Lobster

36. Debearding Mussels

37. Shucking Oysters

38. Caring for Salt Blocks

39. Cleaning Fresh Octopus

40. Making Orange Supremes

41. Buying and Making Smoked Salt

42. Preparing Avocado

43. Peeling and Coring Pineapple

44. Crimping Pastry Edges

45. Toasting and Cracking Whole Spices

46. Seasoning Cast Iron