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To many people, one of the hard-won battle stripes of a skilled cook is the ability to turn out a creamy, professional-looking omelet in a relaxed batting of the eye. Given today's accelerated daily ...

A few years ago, when I was a student at l’Institut Paul Bocuse, one of the premier cooking colleges in France, I watched an omelette-making class through a glass partition. I was in a hallway, in the ...