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During the lessons, people were taught how to cook low-cost, healthy meals and they were then given the ingredients to practice at home.

It was the first time I realized mayonnaise could combine with other ingredients to become something greater — something nuanced and deeply flavorful.

But the idea of true, confident baking — the kind where you understand how ingredients work and why — felt completely outside my reach.

It’s a beloved ingredient in French cuisine and many classic dishes, but it has fallen out of favor in contemporary cooking, especially in America.

Immigrant workers fill crucial roles; they are “key ingredients” without which other jobs in the industry would cease to exist, he said.