Article: CRUMB AND CRUMBER JAPANESES CUISINE ISN'T KNOWN FOR ITS BREAD, BUT PANKO BREAD CRUMBS HAVE LOCAL CHEFS GOING TO PIECES.

Not too long ago, "if you wanted good bread crumbs, you'd have to make your own," says Gabriel Frasca, executive chef at Spire in Boston. "But panko is better." In a restaurant scene that normally eschews the pre-made and convenient in favor of fresh, difficult-to- find ingredients, local chefs seem to be uniformly crazy about easy, packaged panko - bread crumbs made the Japanese way.

Frasca uses panko as a vehicle for frying in several dishes, but most notably in his interpretation of the classic French salade frisee aux lardons. His version is made with frisee lettuce, truffle- infused vinaigrette, Serrano ham, spiced cashews, and a poached egg that is cooked a second time - it's coated ...

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