Reviews

“The most aston­ish­ing cook­book of our time.”
—Katy McLaughlin, Wall Street Journal

“It’s an ency­clo­pe­dia, a man­i­festo, and a doc­u­men­tary, and, should you find a way to get your hands on it, you’re in for an expe­ri­ence that will leave you awed, exhausted, and agog with dis­be­lief.”
—T. Susan Chang, Boston Globe

“Arguably the most beau­ti­ful, in-depth man­ual of cook­ing meth­ods ever pub­lished.”
—Elizabeth Weise, USA Today

“While there have been era-defining cookbooks—Auguste Escoffier’s Le Guide Culinaire (1903) is one precedent—it’s unlikely that any­one will ever have the desire or where­withal to pro­duce a print project of this mag­ni­tude again. Myhrvold has spared no expense and taken the time to get it right.”
—Josh Ozersky, TIME

“The home chef—sweating over a partner’s birth­day din­ner, or harass­edly feed­ing small chil­dren, or reheat­ing yesterday’s casse­role, or mut­ter­ing in front of an empty fridge—will be inclined to ask, What’s in it for me? The answer is that the work does con­tain quite a few tricks and use­ful pieces of know-how.”
—John Lanchester, The New Yorker

“The rea­son to pony up the going rate is that Modernist Cuisine is an incom­pa­ra­ble intro­duc­tion to many of the basic tech­niques of food and cook­ing... as com­pre­hen­sive and read­able and valu­able as any books I’ve seen on sub­jects essen­tial for any­one inter­ested in food.”
—Corby Kummer, Technology Review

“Microsoft’s Former CTO Takes On Modernist Cuisine”
—Mark McClusky, Wired

“Food Like You’ve Never Seen Before”
—Jerry Adler, Smithsonian

“A visual roller coaster through the world of food and cook­ing tools ... For the pro­fes­sional chef, mod­ernist or not, it will be an invalu­able ref­er­ence. For the cook­ing geek with $625 to spare ($467.62 online), it will be end­less fun. As a phys­i­cal object it is remark­able; some­times I found myself sim­ply star­ing at the block of books.... Nothing seems to have been spared on the qual­ity of the photo repro­duc­tion, on heavy stock with solid bind­ing.”
—Michael Ruhlman, The New York Times

“A masterpiece...the most impor­tant cook­book of the first ten years of the 21st cen­tury.”
—Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

“The pic­tures in Modernist Cuisine is the most spec­tac­u­lar cook­book the world has ever seen. Lifting the lid—literally—on the alchemy of the kitchen, it will trans­form the way we think about food for­ever.”
—John Walsh, The Independent

“To describe Modernist Cuisine as ‘a cook­book’ is a bit like describ­ing Mount Everest as a hill. With 2,438 pages, 3,216 full color pho­tographs and 1.1 mil­lion words, Modernist Cuisine will surely be the longest, most thor­ough exam­i­na­tion of food ever pub­lished.”
—Kenji Lopez-Alt, Gourmet

“Big, beau­ti­ful, and worth the hype...it is the answer to every­thing you wanted to know about cook­ing, not to men­tion so many things you never thought about.”
—Andreas Viestad, The Washington Post

“A visual delight to pore through.”
—Anne Kingston, Maclean’s

“This is the book we wanted some­one to make.”
—Greg Atkinson, FoodArts

“Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, about the book is aston­ish­ing. Illustrations, infor­ma­tion design, writ­ing... the whole nine yards. At first glance, it doesn’t appear merely to be the most impor­tant event in food pub­lish­ing in decades (or more). That’s obvi­ous. I just keep won­der­ing if there has been a book of this scope, design, and impor­tance of any kind in decades (or more).“
—Chris Amirault, eGul­let

“This is a mind-blowing book in so many aspects. In the course of this review [of the cof­fee chap­ter], I could not help but read a good chunk of the books for hours and hours and hours; yet still, I only barely skimmed the sur­face. This is absolutely cur­rent, state of the art think­ing. Getting this kind of infor­ma­tion into the heads of for­ward think­ing chefs, culi­nary experts, and food­ies is awe­some.“
—Mark Prince, CoffeeGeek

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