(via Kottke) Nathan Myhrvold, cookbook author Nathan Myhrvold, ex-Microsoftie and founder of an invention company called Intellectual Ventures, is also really interested in food, so much so that he’s writing a monster cookbook (currently ~1500 pages) about the science of cooking. In another discovery of culinary heat transfer physics, Dr. Myhrvold said the bulbous shape [...]
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Tools, pt. 1
“Cooking is not a perfectly precise art, but a good grasp of the basics gives the chef or student the ability not only to apply the technique, but also to learn the standards of quality so that they begin to develop a sense of how cooking works.” -The Professional Chef (XV [emphasis mine]) No one [...]