Chef Dino Tsaknis Pays Tribute To His Culinary Mentor Michael Lachowicz

For this year’s Reader Key Ingredient Cook-Off, we asked some of Chicago’s top chefs to create a dish to honor a person who influenced their cooking. The exercise stirred many kitchen memories.

Dish: Duck, pheasant, quail, and foie gras pativier

Tsaknis’s dish was the crowd favorite at the Key Ingredient Cook-Off.