How Stages Projects Challenges Cooks to Become Better Chefs

We started Stages Projects based on the idea of Noma’s Saturday Night Projects, when any cook can present a dish he has been working on for critique. I always loved the idea of that kind of collaboration, about getting that kind of honesty in a positive way. You don’t just say that a dish sucked, you talk about why. It encourages cooks to ask what makes a dish work. That’s...