"High-def cooking" is the perfect approach to something as seemingly simple as a meatball, which requires exact execution. Vic Casanova, chef at Gusto in Los Angeles, has a few tips for making his classic Italian meatballs.
There were so many kinds of meatballs at the New York Wine and Food Festival's "Meatball Madness" that my intellect was paralyzed. And yet I was able to predict, wrongly, who would win.