Chef Chris Scott came into the spotlight on "Top Chef" season 15, when he finished in the final four. He's owned restaurants focused on Southern and soul food in Brooklyn and Connecticut and is an advocate for food history, regionalism and sobriety. Read more about Chef Chris.
Each fall and winter we get to play with the full bounty of root vegetables, and I love experimenting with new ways to use them. I use the usual suspects we expect on the dinner table: sweet potatoes...
When it comes to fried chicken, Chef Chris leaves the bones inside a chicken for juiciness and breaks the bird down into eight pieces. He uses a vacuum seal bag for his brine, removes excess air to...
Follow Chef Chris' recipe below for a crispy, flaky, juicy wellington, and get his pro trick for preventing the dough from cracking or collapsing in the video. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default...
Once that first autumn breeze blows in, we almost immediately switch gears to heartier foods. Inspired by what’s happening around us with the changing leaves crunching under our feet, the aroma of...
"My dish is going to be a fusion of two cultures," Chef Chris says. "My wife is Korean, my background is in Southern food. This dish encompasses both of our styles." He sources free-range, hormone...
Chef Chris says his main proteins — jumbo lump crab meat, fresh shrimp, scallops and a blue crab — make for a flavorful stock. He adds white beans for sweetness, orange zest for brightness and shrimp...
Take an heirloom tomato for example. Delicious right off of the vine with its naturally sweet and somewhat acidic boldness, it can be easily paired with a sprinkle of sea salt, a little olive oil...
There’s a river in South Carolina called the Pee Dee River, and anything east of that is vinegar-based barbecue: cider, brown sugar, chili flakes, if you like it spicy; it’s very wet. It’s mopped on...
I’ve seen the destruction from alcohol firsthand in my life and in the lives of people I’ve known and worked with. I even had two cousins destroy their livers and pass away from alcohol abuse well...
Some would almost immediately think that this bread has no place on a world stage with other “celebrated” breads. Cornbread tells the story of lack and can get caught up in the stigma of shame and...
