Finesse, The Senses Issue New The blue handle is an

The blue handle is an exact match to The French Laundry’s iconic blue door

With illustrated step-by-step recipes for handmaking forty of the most versatile pasta shapes and one hundred recipes for Italian American

Bronx-born chef David Waltuck reflects on the vibrant life

followed by an eighteen-course tasting menu and an extraordinary wine accompaniment personalized by our Sommeliers

and Per Se

Finesse, The Senses Issue New The blue handle is anIn this issue of Finesse, our seventh, we examine in depth how sight, sound, touch, smell and taste inform our awareness and how we experience food and life. Any chef knows that it is not just the sense of taste that is important in cooking. In the Senses issue, we hear directly from chefs, food writers and home cooks who have put all of their senses to use, from Los Angeles Times Food Editor Russ Parsons, who walks us through how all the senses can