This Key Lime Pie Is Burnt to Perfection

Bernardo Paladini learned from his mentor Massimo Bottura that errors can serve as inspiration. In 2012 Osteria Francescana’s pastry chef Taka Kondo famously dropped a dessert, and the splattered zabaglione and lemongrass ice cream inspired Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart. “When Massimo saw the broken tart he said, ‘Starting tomorrow we’re going to serve it like this.’ He saw opportunity in the mistake. To me, this was...