Chef Shots: Wylie Dufresne

wd-50’s mad scientist shows us the genesis of his ice cream bagel

As it turned out, chef Stupak had been jonesing for an airbrush to experiment with, anyway. His first attempts at shading the bagel with caramel color produced patchy results, but then he hit the mark. Notes Dufresne: "Suddenly we said 'Wait a minute, it looks just like a bagel!' But it looked like a plain bagel." And clearly, Dufresne wanted everything on it.