Top Chef Richard Blais' 'Sandwich Theory' Will Change Your Cooking Forever

Top Chef Richard Blais' 'Sandwich Theory' Will Change Your Cooking Forever

HomeCooking Tips, RecipesTop Chef Richard Blais' 'Sandwich Theory' Will Change Your Cooking Forever

From now on we apply this theory to every meal.

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Chef Richard Blais has done a lot of exciting and important things in his career — like winning Top Chef All-Stars opening multiple restaurants and working with Gordon Ramsey on Next Level Chef. But according to him his career highlight doesn’t come from any of those awards. Instead it’s when his daughter says he makes the best sandwiches.

Blais began his culinary career making Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald's and has credited his sandwich-making technique as one of the reasons he won Top Chef All-Stars. In a recent interview on the Allrecipes podcast Homemade — listen on Apple Podcasts Spotify PlayerFM Amazon Music and wherever podcasts are available — Blais told host Sabrina Medora about his "sandwich theory" that helped him on Top Chef.

"The sandwich theory which is that you have to be able to take any dish any fine dining dish whatever you're making and turn it into a great sandwich" he said. "So I always thought about all of my dishes on Top Chef All-Stars and said 'Can I make this braised pork shank with chile verde and grits? Would that make a great sandwich?' And if I could figure out in my head that that was a sandwich that was the green light to go ahead and move forward."