Books for your Christmas wish list
A couple of books have caught my eye during the year and have naturally made their way into my Christmas wish list (and some I’ve already ordered myself). Please let me know if there are books you belive should be…
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Copenhagen MG seminar: Flavor pairing (part 2)
Wender Bredie presented results from experiments designed to test the flavor pairing hypothesis A topic that I was particularily excited to hear about at the molecular gastronomy seminar in Copenhagen was flavor pairing. Since Heston Blumenthal presented his white chocolate…
Interview with Chris Young
The authors of Modernist Cuisine: Maxime Bilet, Chris Young and Nathan Myhrvold In 2003 Chris Young had an epiphany of a meal at The Fat Duck outside London, and by the end of the meal he knew he had to…
Interesting books to appear in 2010
In addition to Modernist Cuisine and Keys to Good Cooking there are so many new books appearing this fall, so to save you from too many blog posts I’ve collected them here in a single posting. These are all books…
(Too many?) New books
Last year’s book bonanza (Remember The Big Fat Duck Cookbook, Alinea and Under pressure right? Not to mention BakeWise, The Flavor Bible (not science, but I love their systematic approach), Cooking – The Quintessential Art, A day at el Bulli,…
Has molecular gastronomy reached the plateau of productivity?
Loquat fruit (known as pipa in Chinese) piled up at Mercat St. Joseph in Barcelona. Molecular gastronomy was recently chosen as word of the month (not quite sure exactly which month this was). They give the following definition: the art…
The Flemish Primitives: Heston Blumenthal (part 3)
Heston Blumenthal welcomed on stage by Gene Bervoets To the music of Queen’s “We will rock you” Heston Blumenthal (HB) entered the stage, welcomed by Gene Bervoets (GB) and Bernard Lahousse (BL). Heston started of by telling about his childhood…
The Flemish Primitives: A travel report (part 1)
I had a wonderful trip to Brugge/Bruges to attend the foodpairing seminar The Flemish Primitives. I got to meet many interesting people including Heston Blumenthal, Peter Barham, Andrew Dornenburg, Karen Page, Ben Roche and Tony Conigliaro to mention a few.…
Food pairing seminar update
The food pairing seminar is named “The Flemish Primitives” after the 15th and 16th century artists who were combining talent with new techniques. I’ve blogged about the upcoming food pairing seminar in Belgium on January 5th previously, but there are…
The Big Fat Duck Cookbook
I recently blogged about the Alinea cookbook, and then in a Q&A with both Grant Achatz and Heston Blumenthal I discovered that there is another great cook book coming up this fall: The Big Fat Duck Cookbook! It’s quite amazing…