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Key Ingredient: propolis
In this week's chef's challenge, bee-produced resin makes Sarah Grueneberg dizzy
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Key Ingredient: bee pollen
In this week's chef's challenge, Giuseppe Tentori concocts "bee bread" gnocchi
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In this week's chef-to-chef challenge, Charles Joly of the Drawing Room scents a cocktail with ambergris, whale vomit often used in perfume
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Key Ingredient: bamboo fungus
Craig Schoettler of the Aviary makes a complex cocktail with "veiled lady"
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Key Ingredient: dried limes
In this week's chef-to-chef challenge, One Sister's Iliana Regan whips up dried lime panna cotta with chocolate marble crunch
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Key Ingredient: flour
In this week's chef-to-chef challenge, Brandon Baltzley of Crux makes dessert with something he doesn't "fuck with that much"
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Key Ingredient: Asian carp
In this week's chef-to-chef challenge, Blackbird's pastry chef makes a fishy dessert
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Key Ingredient: gold leaf
In this week's chef-to-chef challenge, Erling Wu-Bower of the Publican gilds fried fish
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Telegraph's John Anderes makes carbon palatable
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Lula Cafe's Jason Hammel tempers the sweetness of the whey cheese "with some farm funk thrown in"
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Duncan Biddulph of Rootstock takes on the male genitalia of the fish—including semen
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Key Ingredient: Calves' liver
Rodney Staton of the Ogden stuffs chicken-skin agnolotti with calves' liver mousse
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Key Ingredient: grass jelly
Michael McGill of Old Oak Tap tastes pennies in an east-Asian plant product
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Ariel Bagadiong of Aja goes Asian with a traditional Scottish dish
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Key Ingredient: balut
Kristine Subido of Wave gags down fertilized duck egg
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Edward Kim of Ruxbin puts terrapin back in its shell
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Key Ingredient: black cardamom
Beverly Kim of Aria goes dark and spooky with a smoky spice
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Key Ingredient: mountain ash berries
Kevin Hickey of Seasons Restaurant pairs wild berries with wild game
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Key Ingredient: Sugarcane
Dirk Flanigan of Henri and the Gage brings out the big knives to tackle these five-foot-long stalks
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Key Ingredient: bamboo worms
Luke Creagan of Pops for Champagne goes gourmet(ish) with fishing bait
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