Category molecular gastronomy

Foodpairing website launched

The long awaited website on foodpairings has now been launched, and they’ve also registred the corresponding blogspot name (which isn’t online yet as of today). The beautiful photos, great design and easy maneuvering makes it an excellent place to start…

Groovy!

Some time ago one of my google alerts directed me to a brand new album by Food called Molecular Gastronomy, but it was only yesterday that a friend (check out his review of the CD) sent me a list of…

TGRWT #8: White chocolate and caviar

For this round, Chad of Chadzilla chose one of the “classic” examples of pairings based on impact odorants – white chocolate and caviar. As pointed out by my fellow bloggers, this pairing has appeared in a number of MG inspired…

Edible cocktails with gelatin

Recipes for Bluberry martini jelly shots (top right), B-52 jelly shots (bottom right), Prosecco gelée (middle left) and Gin and Tonic gelée (middle) are given below. Just wanted to point you to a beautiful picture gallery of edible cocktails accompanying…

Kitchen gadgets

Popular science magazine has an amusing article on “The future of food” which portrays Dave Arnold, apparently the “man behind the curtain of today’s hottest movement in cooking”. I don’t buy all of this, but he’s no doubt had a…

Food related 2007 IgNoble prizes

Slightly off topic (but with links to both food and science): At this time of the year it’s time for the IgNoble prizes – the entertaining cousins of the more serious Noble prizes! And once again several of them are…

Molecular gastronomy mailing list

It’s a while since the mailing list that was set up at moleculargastronomy.org [link to web.archive.org] went down due to a server failure. This list was set up after the Erice meeting in 2004, but there was not much activity…