Heston Blumenthal was recently featured in “Private Eye”, a british satire magazine (found via Aidan Brooks). They included the following recipe for boiled eggs: A further discussion of boiled eggs from the perspective of molecular gastronomy is found here.
My very first encounter with food chemistry and molecular gastronomy was through the first edition of Harold McGee’s book “On food and cooking”. The good news is he has started a blog with News for curious cooks (with the subtitle:…
Now that I’m at it, I found yet another article by Hervé This entitled Molecular Gastronomy and the Foundation “Food Science and Food Culture”, published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 2006, 5, 48. About the name…
In a recent issue of EMBO Reports, Hervé This (who coined the term “molecular gastronomy”) writes about “Food for tomorrow? How the scientific discipline of molecular gastronomy could change the way we eat” (free download: html or pdf). He asks:…
Approximately a month ago Harold McGee suggested that the term “molecular gastronomy” should be ditched. Now Ferran Adrií who has been visiting San Francisco claims that his cooking is often incorrectly labeled molecular gastronomy. More on this from SFGate.com: Adrií …
Shirley O’Corriher, author of the excellent book Cookwise, will host seminars on molecular gastronomy in New York. First topic is “Better cooking through chemistry” followed by “The science of wine”, The science of beer”, “The science of taste” and “The…
In Switzerland, associate professor Marc Heyraud at the department of chemistry at University of Neuchí¢tel organizes a course series on molecular gastronomy, starting November 1st. Totaling 7 days in Neuchí¢tel and 2 days in Paris (visiting Hervé This), the course…
Look out for the upcoming seminar on molecular gastronomy in Belgium on November 20th, 2006. The program includes scientists Peter Barham and Jorge Ruiz, and chefs Kobe Desramault and Sang Hoon Degeimbre. I wish I could take part!
Here’s some pictures of an experiment I did with strawberries and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide which holds a temperature of -78 °C. What is fascinating is that dry ice does not melt –…
Spain’s top 10 chefs, including Ferran Adria of El Bulli, were featured at the “Spain’s 10 – Cocina de Vanguardia” in New York. Off the broiler and foodite have nice reports. I particularly fancy their pictures, depicting how laboratory equipment,…
