Chefs and Restaurants

What it's Like to Cook with Mise en Place that Can Kill You

As Carla Pellegrino prepared to cook her Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner while competing on Throwdown with Bobby Flay, she brought 100-year-old family recipes from the Rao’s restaurants in New York and Las Vegas, along with something equally important: an Epi-Pen. Pellegrino has a life-threatening allergy to shellfish. But although she could not taste the lobster Fra Diavolo she was preparing, she was confident: she cooked professionally for 15 years...