Mise en Place

Mise en Place
St. Helena, California, 2000

Everything is in its place and the dinner rush has begun.  To an outsider, the kitchen might appear to be frantic, but a well operating kitchen is poetry in motion.  Each player on this culinary stage has a role to play, a job to do, and the complex dance of the dinner service plays out.  In an open kitchen, patrons take a front-row seat to a well-choreographed performance.