“A visual delight to pore through…”
Serious Eats
“To describe Modernist Cuisine as ‘a cookbook’ is a bit like describing Mount Everest as a hill.”
The Independent
“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.”
Vanity Fair
“The most ambitious cookbook ever published (or ever likely to be).”
The Boston Globe
“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.”
Wired
“The definitive book about the science of cooking—the Principia of the kitchen. It’s dense and beautiful and inspired…”
Newsweek
“The six-volume set defies categorization…. By turns breathless and pedagogical, it aspires to be to cooking what Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture was to the building arts of the 1920s: a true modernist manifesto.”
Time
“Myhrvold has spared no expense and taken the time to get it right.”
The Washington Post
“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.”
The Atlantic
“If a cookbook can come anywhere near the goal of having something for everyone, Modernist Cuisine definitely comes close… it may live on as the most important cookbook—ever.”