Modernist Kitchen , The Art and Science of Cooking, by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young, Maxime Biletest is a set of 6 huge cookbooks, 2,438 pages in total, 3,500 photos or illustrations, recipes inspired by 72 chefs, 36 authors (renowned scientists, inventors, mathematicians, and above all accomplished cooks) with the aim of "reinventing the kitchen".
It's already being referred to as the "most important cookbook of the first decade of the 21st century" .
Spanish chef Ferran Adrià says of him:"This book will change the way we approach cooking" .
Released in the United States last year, it is now available in France, but still in English!
(Editions Cooking Lab - April 4, 2011)
The book was thought by Nathan Myhrvold , former Microsoft, founder of Intellectual Ventures, a company dedicated to invention. With Chris Young and Maxime Biletest , as well as 20 collaborators, it took them 3 years of work...
