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Ridgewood teen chef has recipe for her future plans
MONDAY JULY 15, 2013, 2:15 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Food Network really got Ridgewood resident Emma Scher’s goat. Sort of.
Scher, a talented young chef who placed second among four contestants on a July 2 teen episode of the network’s hit cooking competition series “Chopped,” said that cooking an entrée featuring goat was the trickiest part of the show.
The soon-to-be college student and budding professional chef practiced for “Chopped,” on which chefs have time limits to create dishes with surprise ingredients, by cooking several proteins available at the supermarket. But who would have thought of goat?
“Definitely, the goat was the hardest part. I’d also never tasted it, so I didn’t know how it was supposed to taste,” said Scher, a recent graduate of Bergen County Academies’ (BCA) Academy for Culinary Arts and Hospitality Administration. “Can goat be ‘rare’? I just didn’t know.”
This situation isn’t that “rare” on “Chopped.” Chefs sometimes have never heard of an ingredient, let alone used it.
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