One of the most integral aspects of running a large-scale kitchen like MBC's is minimizing waste or - as Marcey would say - using everything "from root to shoot." As an avid cook and cultivator of an expansive garden at her home in upstate New York, she considers this something of a mantra. During her feature on Jill Blackway's "Grow. Cook. Heal." podcast, Marcey shared a recipe for pickled seedpods, and extolled the advantages of optimizing every component of an item, garden grown or otherwise. "One of the things that anyone that has a large garden knows is that there's a lot of harvest, and a lot of waste," said Marcey. "I like to use every part of the vegetable; I like to use every part of the meat." In this spirit, Marcey made it a point to utilize every part of the whole lamb she prepared for her husband's birthday last month, collecting every bit of meat for a ragu, roasting the bones, and then making a stock, reduction, and demi-glace. "I think it's that immigrant mentality," she said. "My grandmother was from Poland, and she foraged. It's just in my blood." This philosophy is one that resonates with [...]
