Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
Laura Mvula
The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is... →
Nathan Myhrvold
Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like... →
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred... →
Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food.... →
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.