If you've ever enjoyed a great meal at a fine-dining restaurant, watched any of the countless cooking competition shows, or scrolled through a beautifully curated Instagram feed of fancy food, you ...

The Clock Face Plating Technique You're Supposed to Miss Believe it or not, your plate isn't randomly arranged. Chefs use an imaginary clock face when positioning ingredients, placing protein between ...

Fine dining is often built on the belief that how a dish looks is just as important as how it tastes. Chefs spend years learning to arrange food with precision, hoping it turns each plate into a piece ...

Begin with your chef's knife and a whole orange placed on a cutting board. The first move is to slice off one end—just enough ...

Sharon Lockley has over 20 years of experience as an editor and writer and has been contributing to Food & Wine since 2019. As food editors, this topic has been at the forefront of our minds, so we ...