Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking (The Cooking Lab, 2011) is a six-volume, 2,348-page work that relies heavily on photography and illustrations to make the science and technology of modern cooking accessible and engaging to everyone from science buffs to professional chefs. One of our goals in producing the book, by inventor and physicist Nathan Myhrvold, along with co-authors Chris Young and Maxime Bilet, was to give readers insight into what happens inside food as it cooks. So we developed a unique "cutaway" style of photo illustration that reveals all the action occurring at the center of, say, a pot of steaming broccoli or a pair of burgers on a Weber grill.
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Read More »Japan declares emergency at nuke plant, no radiation leak now
(Adds researchers' quotes, background) By Osamu Tsukimori and Kiyoshi Takenaka [More]
Read More »Japan declares emergency at nuke plant, no radiation leak now
(Adds researchers' quotes, background) By Osamu Tsukimori and Kiyoshi Takenaka [More]
Read More »MIND Reviews: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O.
Read More »MIND Reviews: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 [More]
Read More »U.S. readies earthquake relief response
* Obama sends condolences, promises aid * Pentagon readies ships to help [More]
Read More »U.S. readies earthquake relief response
* Obama sends condolences, promises aid * Pentagon readies ships to help [More]
Read More »Huge tsunami kills hundreds in Japan, sweeps across Pacific
(Adds details) * Quake, wall of water kill hundreds, many missing [More]
Read More »Huge tsunami kills hundreds in Japan, sweeps across Pacific
(Adds details) * Quake, wall of water kill hundreds, many missing [More]
Read More »Warnings, reefs lessen tsunamis, storms impact
March 11 (Reuters) - Early warning systems and a drive toprotect mangroves and coral reefs as buffers to waves are among [More]
Read More »Warnings, reefs lessen tsunamis, storms impact
March 11 (Reuters) - Early warning systems and a drive toprotect mangroves and coral reefs as buffers to waves are among [More]
Read More »Tsunami evacuations "very possible" in California
OAKLAND, Calif., March 11 (Reuters) - The tsunami generatedby a massive earthquake in Japan could reach 6 feet (2 metres) [More]
Read More »Tsunami evacuations "very possible" in California
OAKLAND, Calif., March 11 (Reuters) - The tsunami generatedby a massive earthquake in Japan could reach 6 feet (2 metres) [More]
Read More »UPDATE 1-U.S. readies earthquake relief response
(Updated with Pentagon statement and State Department traveladvisory) [More]
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