This Herve
This Herve - Building A Meal From Molecular Gastronomy To Culinary Constructivism - Paperback
This Herve - Building A Meal From Molecular Gastronomy To Culinary Constructivism - Paperback
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Description: An internationally renowned chemist popular television personality and bestselling author Herve This heads the first laboratory devoted to molecular gastronomy - - the scientific exploration of cooking and eating. By testing recipes that have guided cooks for centuries and the various dictums and maxims on which they depend Herve This unites the head with the hand in order to defend and transform culinary practice. With this new book Herve This's scientific project enters an exciting new phase. Considering the preparation of six bistro favorites - - hard - boiled egg with mayonnaise simple consomme leg of lamb with green beans steak with French fries lemon meringue pie and chocolate mousse - - he isolates the exact chemical properties that tickle our senses and stimulate our appetites. More important he connects the mind and the stomach identifying methods of culinary construction that appeal to our memories intelligence and creativity. By showing that the creation of a meal is as satisfying as its consumption Herve This recalibrates the balance between food and our imaginations. The result is a revolutionary perspective that will tempt even the most casual cooks to greater flights of experimentation.
Title: Building A Meal From Molecular Gastronomy To Culinary Constructivism
Author(s): This Herve
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231144674
Pages: 152 Pages, 12 Illus.
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/6/2011
Category: Cookery / Food & Drink Etc
Description: An internationally renowned chemist popular television personality and bestselling author Herve This heads the first laboratory devoted to molecular gastronomy - - the scientific exploration of cooking and eating. By testing recipes that have guided cooks for centuries and the various dictums and maxims on which they depend Herve This unites the head with the hand in order to defend and transform culinary practice. With this new book Herve This's scientific project enters an exciting new phase. Considering the preparation of six bistro favorites - - hard - boiled egg with mayonnaise simple consomme leg of lamb with green beans steak with French fries lemon meringue pie and chocolate mousse - - he isolates the exact chemical properties that tickle our senses and stimulate our appetites. More important he connects the mind and the stomach identifying methods of culinary construction that appeal to our memories intelligence and creativity. By showing that the creation of a meal is as satisfying as its consumption Herve This recalibrates the balance between food and our imaginations. The result is a revolutionary perspective that will tempt even the most casual cooks to greater flights of experimentation.
Title: Building A Meal From Molecular Gastronomy To Culinary Constructivism
Author(s): This Herve
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231144674
Pages: 152 Pages, 12 Illus.
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/6/2011
Category: Cookery / Food & Drink Etc
