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Family

Season 6 Episode 4 | 23m 15s

For better or worse, we do not get to choose the family into which we’re born. In Danny’s case, nor did he get to choose the family that adopted him. As a husband and father, he has made his own family unit, and as a chef and business owner he has made a second family, his restaurant family.

Aired: 04/17/25
Extras
We open the cage on some of familiar (and some not so familiar) poultry dishes.
A look at some of the best desserts in the Mind of a Chef archives.
Explore the wet and dry side of our culinary world in this surf and turf special.
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Revisit some of the best fried dishes in the Mind of a Chef archives.
Spend some time cooking with the greatest culinary minds in the world.
Fall in love again with the best egg dishes from the Mind of a Chef archives.
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