{"id":362,"date":"2011-08-10T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T02:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2011-08-10T23:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T03:14:33","slug":"willy-wonka-molecular-gastronomist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Willy Wonka, Molecular Gastronomist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Modernist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-363\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Modernist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Modernist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Modernist.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Modernist-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t normally post links here. \u00c2\u00a0But I&#8217;m making an exception. \u00c2\u00a0The link below shows the true fun that can be found in molecular gastronomy&#8211;in\u00c2\u00a0opposition\u00c2\u00a0to those who see the field as sucking the warmth and love out of cooking.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you new to the term,\u00c2\u00a0molecular gastronomy is basically using science to break the rules of what cooking is\u00c2\u00a0intuitively; for example room temperature ice cream that has no cream.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathan_Myhrvold\">Nathan Myhrvold<\/a> put out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0982761007\/ref=nosim\/0sil8\">Modernist\u00c2\u00a0Cuisine<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0a 5 volume, 40 lbs tome of\u00c2\u00a0molecular gastronomy. \u00c2\u00a0In the link, the blogger conjures images from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy: \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/04\/willy-wonka-molecular-gastronomist\">http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/04\/willy-wonka-molecular-gastronomist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and yes, at a mere $625, the Modernist\u00c2\u00a0Cuisine\u00c2\u00a0is on my Christmas list.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t normally post links here. \u00c2\u00a0But I&#8217;m making an exception. \u00c2\u00a0The link below shows the true fun that can be found in molecular gastronomy&#8211;in\u00c2\u00a0opposition\u00c2\u00a0to those who see the field as sucking the warmth and love out of cooking. For those of you new to the term,\u00c2\u00a0molecular gastronomy is basically using science to break the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}