August 29th, 2010
Dr. Nathan Myhrvold’s presentation at the International Food Bloggers Convention (IFBC) today appeared to be a big hit with the food bloggers in attendance today. Despite the rather scientific nature of the book and the presentation, the audience seemed engaged throughout. The high speed, high definition videos and high resolution photographs elicited cheers from the audience who demanded to see some of them again.
After the presentation, the audience had questions ranging from the definition of an emulsion to the source [...]
August 28th, 2010
Is food blogging its own unique art? The short answer is yes, as I discovered during Kathleen Flinn’s “Writing With All Five Senses” workshop today. This IFBC workshop was packed with professional food bloggers who seemed to have no problem with the seemingly simple exercise of describing a lemon.
August 27th, 2010
Last night, the authors of Modernist Cuisine hosted a small demonstration and reception at The Cooking Lab, where the book was created. (I say “created” rather than “written” because the book contains more original art and research than some universities — but that is for another post). In attendance were approximately 30 food bloggers, many in town for the International Food Bloggers Convention (IFBC) which kicks off later today. I will leave the coverage of the reception itself to the other bloggers [...]
August 13th, 2010
We have made a 20-page excerpt from the book available for download. This section tells the story of the book and provides insight into why we created it and the philosophy that guided us in designing and writing it. The except also discusses how we made the photographs and offers a few illustrations of the recipes to explain how our recipe formats work. We hope you enjoy it.
August 8th, 2010
Welcome to our web site!
It is very exciting to have our web site go online so we can share our project with the world. We have been working away for years on the project, and we are nearing completion. The web site is a great milestone. It lets us show off a tiny bit of what is in the book.