The Science of Cooking w/ Nathan Myhrvold

The Science of Cooking w/ Nathan Myhrvold

Modernist Cuisine is the most ambitious cookbook(s) on the planet.  Seriously.  It is a six-volume, 2,438-page set that is des­tined to rein­vent cook­ing.  Totally amazing.  I want! http://modernistcuisine.com/

For those of you geeks out there that don’t know who Nathan Myhrovold is:
DR. NATHAN MYHRVOLD is chief exec­u­tive offi­cer and a founder of Intellectual Ventures, a firm ded­i­cated to cre­at­ing and invest­ing in inven­tions. In addi­tion to stim­u­lat­ing the inven­tion of oth­ers, Myhrvold is him­self an active inven­tor, with nearly 250 patents issued or pending—including sev­eral related to food tech­nol­ogy. Before found­ing his inven­tion com­pany, Myhrvold was the first chief tech­nol­ogy offi­cer at Microsoft. He estab­lished Microsoft Research, and dur­ing his tenure he over­saw many advanced tech­nol­ogy projects. He left Microsoft in 1999 to pur­sue sev­eral inter­ests, includ­ing a life­long inter­est in cook­ing and food science.