It sits on the plate, a vision of culinary impossibility. The skin of the roast chicken is a deep, burnished gold, so uniformly crisp it crackles if you so much as breathe on it. Yet, …

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It sits on the plate, a vision of culinary impossibility. The skin of the roast chicken is a deep, burnished gold, so uniformly crisp it crackles if you so much as breathe on it. Yet, …

In the traditional dichotomy of cooking, we have always separated water and fire. We boil or steam in a pot (wet heat), and we roast or bake in an oven (dry heat). Each method has …