Modernist Cuisine

Alrighty. It's yet another day of my 30-day challenge. Day 8 as a matter of fact.This is going to be a little bit of a short post. I'm not feeling so well today and don't feel up to writing a whole lot. And it's also gorgeous outside so I'm hoping that if I get outside for a while this afternoon I might feel better.

Today's talk is by Nathan Myrhvold who is a chef and cookbook author. He's also a nerd. In this talk he discusses the various parts of his cookbook 'Modernist Cuisine', which looks at the science behind cooking. I'm very intrigued by this because I love to cook and I am a science nerd. He shows some fascinating pictures and high speed videos of some of the science behind cooking. I'd be interested in seeing the 'cookbook'. Be warned that when I say cookbook, it's really quite a bit more than that. Over 2,000 pages long, it's broken up into 6 volumes. To buy the whole set it's somewhere around $500. So it's more of a series of textbooks rather than a cookbook. Volume 6 is the kitchen manual and is really the cookbook part of it (and has waterproof pages apparently). So I won't be buying it anytime soon.

I hope you enjoy. I find it fascinating to look at the science behind cooking.