What is the meaning of deconstructed in cooking?

Answer 1

What is "deconstruction"? According to the Food Network "Deconstruction," a term coined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, that refers to a style of literary analysis where text is analyzed closely and dismantled into independent parts that, though they work in the context of, say, a paragraph, may contradict each other in and of themselves. Essentially, it's a way at looking at the individual parts of a commonly-accepted whole, and how they interact with each other outside that whole.

So? One might ask, and your point is? Well, as deconstruction hit its stride, it was applied to anything, not just text. In the course of events restaurants started serving "deconstructed" food; that is, sums of parts: like the deconstructed Caesar salad (stacked romaine lettuce, an anchovy, an egg yolk, and some shaved Parmesan, in separate heaps on a plate),

Answer 2

Breaking down a food item's components