Edition 14 · Ash & Ivory · published from Lyon
Every recipe ships with two plating routes. Browse the archive
Studio no. 4 · Rue des Capucins, Lyon · est. 2021
Every recipe in the archive arrives twice: once as you would serve it to family, once as you would serve it to a room you want to impress. Same components, two compositions, and the reasoning written down.
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Four working habits borrowed from a photography studio and rewritten for a domestic kitchen with one oven and no runner.
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A toggle on every recipe. Rustic for the table you eat at, Atelier for the table you photograph, with assembly diagrams for both.
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Cook to a colour. Filter the archive by visual scheme first and by ingredient or clock second, because the table is seen before it is tasted.
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Recipes split into base, main, sauce, crunch and green. Learn a component once and it travels across nine other dishes.
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Bottle, glass, vessel and light. A pairing note that covers the 2700K bulb above the table as well as what is in it.
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The same pan of charred leeks and chanterelles, assembled two ways. Neither is the correct answer. Pick the one that suits the evening.
Rustic assembly
Atelier assembly
Studio note The rustic bowl wants height and overlap. The atelier plate wants a clean 40 percent of untouched glaze. If you are cooking for six, use the bowl. Twelve chanterelles placed with tweezers is a job for two plates, not six.
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Start from the colour you want on the table. Then narrow by the clock, the way you actually cook on a weeknight.
Showing all 12 recipes from Edition 14.
Ember Barley, Beetroot Salsa & Smoked Yoghurt
Lamb Shoulder, Okra & Green Harissa
Herb-Crumbed Cod on Wild Garlic
Sea Bass, Pea Cream & Charred Lemon
Courgette Fritter, Pearl Couscous & Petals
Heirloom Tomatoes, Ash Salt & Basil Oil
Tuna Loin, Blood Orange & Sumac
Dry-Aged Sirloin, Red Wine Glaze & Bone Marrow
Squash Velouté, Marigold & Brown Butter
Citrus Curd, Olive Oil Crumb & Honey
Cultured Butter, Ash Salt & Rye
Oysters, Cucumber Ice & Dill
Nothing in the archive matches that pair yet.
Edition 14 has no slow afternoon in ash and ivory. Edition 15 does. Loosen the clock, or .
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Nothing in the archive is a monolith. Every recipe is filed as five parts, and every part is portable. Build a plate that has never been published.
I The base
II The main
III The sauce
IV The crunch
V The green
Base
Grilled rye toast
Main
Confit shrimp
Sauce
Black garlic jus
Crunch
Toasted hazelnut
Green
Wood sorrel
Grilled rye toast · Confit shrimp · Black garlic jus · Toasted hazelnut · Wood sorrel
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A pairing note that admits the truth: the bulb above the table changes the plate more than the vintage does.
Set for Recipe 118, Charred Leek & Chanterelle
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Nine short courses on the mechanics. No knife brand reviews, no forty-minute intros. Each lesson is one technique, filmed close, from above.
Viscosity first, gesture second. A sauce that holds a drag is between 1,200 and 1,800 centipoise, which in a domestic kitchen means it coats the spoon and parts for a fingertip.
A brunoise reads as intent. A rough dice reads as hurry. Both are correct, on different plates, and knowing which one you are making is the whole lesson.
Most home plates fail by addition. The rule in the studio: every garnish must be edible, must be tasted in the dish, and must be removable without the plate collapsing.
Leaves have a front and a back. Sorrel placed underside up goes grey under warm light. Twenty seconds of attention here changes the photograph more than the plate cost.
Empty glaze is not wasted plate. It is the frame. The studio target is 40 percent untouched on a wide rim, and almost none in a bowl, which is why the two routes exist.
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Short commentary from the bench. Why a combination works, why a plate reads flat, what we changed between the first shot and the published one.
On contrast
Soft, then sharp, then bitter. That sequence is why the leek plate works: sweet char, an acid crumb, sorrel that closes the mouth. Add a fourth texture and the palate stops ranking them, which is when a plate starts tasting busy despite every element being good.
Idris Kalfa · 04 September
A plate is finished when removing one more thing would make it worse. Most of us stop three items late.
Margaux Rives, founder
On colour
Chanterelle and brown butter sit within twenty degrees of each other on the wheel, so the plate goes muddy under a 2700 K bulb. The fix is not more orange. It is one cold green, placed small. Six leaves of sorrel are enough to make the orange read as orange again.
Idris Kalfa · 28 August
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Sourcing guides for ingredients that carry a plate visually. Where to find them in Europe, what a fair price looks like, and when the season turns.
Guide 01 · in season now
Ribbed Costoluto for the cut face, Green Zebra for the acid, Noire de Crimée when you want the plate to go almost black. Ask for the crate, not the punnet.
Guide 02
Chlorophyll oil holds colour for four days, then browns. Make it the morning of. Store in tin, never glass on a windowsill, and label the batch date on the base.
Guide 03
Nasturtium is peppery, borage is cucumber, viola is nearly nothing. Buy the first two for flavour and the third only when the plate needs a specific violet.
Guide 04
Yellow varieties, saffron, marigold, cultured butter and a bronze fennel top. The palette is easy to assemble and easy to overcook into beige. Keep one element raw.
Drag, scroll or arrow through the rail. 26 sourcing guides in the full archive.
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