stagiaires

Now that the season is winding down, there are also a lot more short-term stagiaires and even casual visitors in the kitchen.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

Now that the season is winding down, there are also a lot more short-term stagiaires and even casual visitors in the kitchen.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

There is only one subject that unites all the stagiaires in complaint and that is tasting.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

Each bowl contains precisely thirteen grams, which comes out to several dozen lentils, and since the dish appears on almost every menu, the stagiaires must push approximately two thousand drops of lentil batter through their syringes into ice water each day.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

But with nothing more concrete than that, many of the stagiaires begin to fear that they will spend the next four months doing exactly the same thing that they are doing now.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

The other stagiaires murmur approvingly, and Luca, who is Italian, joins in excitedly.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

He is always careful to explain what he is doing and always clear about his expectations of the six stagiaires who work under him.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

The journalist is from a Catalan newspaper and is focusing his story on the Catalan stagiaires.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

It was, quite simply, the most valuable possession she and the other stagiaires could imagine owning.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

For the final meeting, the stagiaires take their regular places around the edge of the kitchen.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

Noma’s internship program has also served as a way for Noma to shore up its labor force, supplying 20 to 30 full-time workers (“stagiaires” is the traditional French term) who do much of the painstaking labor — hand-peeling walnuts and separating lavender leaves from stems — that defines Noma’s food and aesthetic.

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