Making bouquet garni
Bouquet garni (a sprig of thyme, rosemary and parsley)
Farcelettes; Spanish Style Bouquet Garni
A bouquet garni with leek
Bouquet garni with celery, thyme and rosemary (close-up)
A bundle of soup vegetables with bouquet garni & seasonings
Pieces of meat with Nihari curry mix
Turmeric rice being prepared
A peeled apple
Cleaning a mushroom with a knife
Fresh herbs being chopped
Cleaning mushrooms with a brush
Tying the roll with string
Tying a Pork Loin Roast
A chicken being tied for roasting
Bunch of herbs on purple plate
Bouquet garni
A peeled songe root (La Reunion)
Spice sacks being made
Preparing fresh cod in pot
Fresh Strawberries in a Colander with Sugar in a Scale
Making herb oil
Making tortellini
Cleaning chanterelles
Halving an apricot
Borlotti beans, opening a pod
Wrapping red mullet in aluminium foil
A raw chicken being stuffed
Broccoli being broken into florets
Squeezing a lemon
Turkey on baking tray, ready for roasting
Making Osso Bucco; Tying Veal with Twine
A Bouquet of Assorted Herbs
Sliced peppers and a mezzaluna knife in the background
Dipping Chicken in Seasoned Egg; Step in Making Crunchy Baked Chicken
Chicken being prepared
Hollowing out a savoy cabbage
Patting chicken dry and trussing
Prepare chanterelles
Making custard
Spring onions being chopped on a wooden board
Basting Chicken Breast in a Roasting Dish
Saffron threads in a small bowl of water
Vanilla pods and scrapped out seeds on a knife
Preserving ginger
Chopping lemon grass for freezing
Saffron threads in water
Preparing Bresse chicken in salt crust
Onion skewers with seasonings before grilling
Making vinaigrette
Making jellied smoked eel
Seasoning meat kebabs
Peeling an apple
Cleaning mushrooms (brushing with a brush)
Opening oysters with oyster knife
An oyster being opened
Making spruce tip syrup (Picea abies)
Making fish stock
Testing the freshness of a fish
Preparing lemon grass
Cleaning lemon grass
Mincing basil leaves
Fresh herbs in a steamer
Making venison stock
Making white veal stock
Slicing beef
Washing carrots under running water
Dicing an onion
Slicing a Tomato
Placing a Lobster in Boiling Water
Cherries Being Pitted
Cherries in a Bowl Being Pitted
Two Whole Branzino Fish Stuffed with Lemon, Thyme and Butter
Young spinach leaves in colander
Aubergine being sliced
Garlic chives, partly snipped into rings
Hollowing out artichokes
Marinated quails
Leeks, whole and pieces
Zesting a lime with a zester (close-up)
Hulling Strawberries
Frozen Concord grapes on a tray
Concord grapes in freezer bags
Peeling a potato
Chopping parsley
Sardines with parsley on a chopping board
Preparing Brussels sprouts
Clarifying butter
Lobster carcasses being fried
Gravy being thickened with flour-butter
Browning lobster shells
Man taking the oyster meat out of an opened oyster
Preparing poularde with Swiss chard
Dicing pumpkin
Making French dressing
Preparing smoked eel tartare
Tying bunches of lavender
Entrails being removed from prawns
Stuffed leg of lemb being prepared
Kneading pastry with the hands
A child's hands shaping meatballs
Bunch of fresh herbs
Rice being cooked in water
White cabbage being kneaded
Stuffing a chicken
Making tagliatelle by hand
Spice bags with bay leaves
Veal fillet, seasoned with salt and pepper
Making mayonnaise
Trussing a chicken
A goose being closed with toothpicks and tied with twine
Cooking meat in roasting bag
Corn Cooking in a Pot with Water
Risen yeast dough
Dissolving gelatine
Making mustard sauce
Making mustard dressing
Molecular cuisine: making melon caviar
Chicken soup being made
Making tagliatelle using a pasta maker
Shucking Oysters
Making honey and mustard dressing
Making rice pudding with cinnamon
Making vanilla parfait
Apples being sorted
Making panna cotta
Slicing courgettes
Fried jalapenos in a pan (seen from above)
Assorted spices in a mortar (for artichoke dish)
Plums, sugar and spices (for bottling)
Bouquet of Fresh Herbs
Rosemary sprigs being tied into a bundle for drying
Ras-el-hanout being made
Scraping the seeds out of a vanilla pod
Putting spice paste into pan (Thailand)
Turmeric being used as a seasoning
Cardamom seeds being removed from the pods and ground in a mortar
Saffron threads being dissolved
Cutting strawberries into pieces
Herbs being chopped
Brushing grill rack with oil
Scoring fish with a chef's knife
Rolled roulades secured in different ways
Bouquet Garni with Bay Leaf, Thyme and Parsley
Fish being filleted and gutted
Dried morels being halved lengthways
Filleting salmon (removing the skin)
An oyster being removed from its shell
Meat and vegetable kebabs being marinated
Making brawn with potatoes and smoked eel
Descaling fish
A chilli pepper being deseeded
Shallots being diced
Garlic being diced
Brushing Chicken with Melted Butter; Chicken on a Broiling Pan
Making caramel
Drying chervil in a salad spinner
Making gravy
Making sauce
Shredding red cabbage
Slicing a carrot
Cutting up a red pepper
Peeling a carrot
Cleaning chestnut mushrooms
Hands peeling a green apple
Seeds and fruit pulp from a Hokkaido pumpkin
Freshly minced meat in a meat grinder (close-up)
Mussels in a colander being washed with water
Sliced red cabbage
Pumpkin seeds
Lemon grass with Asian knife on wooden chopping board
Trout, one being filleted
Segmenting an orange
Whole Stuffed Fish on Baking Sheet
Potatoes with potato peeler
Redcurrants being destemmed
Couscous being prepared
Making nut oil
Making curried fish soup
Cherries Being Stirred
Cooking Cherries in a Pan
Cooking Cherries
Langoustine tails on a bed of salad being made
Sugar being added to blackcurrants and redcurrants
Peeled, deseeded tomatoes (for tomato jam)
Caramel sauce with whiskey being prepared in a pot
Making sauerkraut
Filleting a salmon
Making dye from spinach
Making cappelletti