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Modernist Cuisine at Home
The culinary revolution that has transformed restaurant menus around the world is also making its way into home kitchens. The Cooking Lab, publisher of the encyclopedic six-volume set Modernist Cuisine, which immediately became the definitive reference for this revolution, has now produced a lavishly illustrated guide for home cooks, complete with all-new recipes tailored...more
Hardcover, 456 pages
Published
October 8th 2012
by The Cooking Lab
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Art meet food. Food meet art. From the first page through to the last of Modernist Cuisine at Home (MCAH) you can be forgiven for losing focus at the underlying, interesting text due to the wonderful, vivid and often totally unexpected photographs.
How can an egg or a beaker of liquid be so interesting? With this book anything can and will surely be possible.
This book has its roots in the highly-acclaimed, multi-volume Modernist Cuisine (MC) reference work (2438 pages, 3200+ images) that fell wit...more
How can an egg or a beaker of liquid be so interesting? With this book anything can and will surely be possible.
This book has its roots in the highly-acclaimed, multi-volume Modernist Cuisine (MC) reference work (2438 pages, 3200+ images) that fell wit...more
I'm marking this book as read even though I just finished the essentials. This isn't a book to read from cover to cover but instead to experience over years of experimentation and creativity.
At its most basic Modernist Cuisine at Home is a guide to how to achieve reproducible results in the kitchen. It introduces measuring techniques and procedures that aid in precision. Being the "at Home" version, it concentrates on methods that can be achieved without spending oodles of cash but be warned -...more
At its most basic Modernist Cuisine at Home is a guide to how to achieve reproducible results in the kitchen. It introduces measuring techniques and procedures that aid in precision. Being the "at Home" version, it concentrates on methods that can be achieved without spending oodles of cash but be warned -...more
I received my copy on 9/28/2012 and it's amazing. I devoured it as soon as it came. I can't wait to devour the recipes! (I'm not sure why I received my preordered copy on 9/28 when it's not due for release until 10/8, but I won't complain.)
Many of them do require a sous vide but, as far as I can tell, that's the main piece of equipment that an experienced home cook probably doesn't already have in their arsenal. The recipes and instructions are clear, as expected, and all the recipes are new - i...more
Many of them do require a sous vide but, as far as I can tell, that's the main piece of equipment that an experienced home cook probably doesn't already have in their arsenal. The recipes and instructions are clear, as expected, and all the recipes are new - i...more
A really fun book to have. It is Harold McGee meets gorgeous photography, meets geeky instructional cooking. I have been studiously applying it's prescriptions, some to acclaim, and often to disaster. But I don't really think the point of the book is to provide directions to dishes, but to open up new ways of looking at and approaching your kitchen and your ingredients; Something this the book accomplishes marvelously. The previously daunting full volumes of the Modernest Cuisine collection beco...more
Great overview of techniques using modern equipment. The recipes are well testing and easily reproduced. It is a bit challenging to integrate these methods into you regular recipes and will take some time to learn how to blend your knowledge and skills of used in standard cooking techniques with these. In my opinion it is worth the challenge. It will change the way you make your daily/weekly meals.
The sous vide gives you some flexibility in the Kitchen to make your protein ahead without loss of...more
The sous vide gives you some flexibility in the Kitchen to make your protein ahead without loss of...more
I am very happy to own this book. Unfortunately, I expected perfection and have run into several recipes that are not perfect. Yes, it's crazy to expect perfection, but I assume I'm not alone considering the time and resources that have gone into the Modernist Cuisine effort.
Another complaint: at times I find myself wanting more food chemistry info. Hopefully, there is a 2438 page, $461 solution.
Another complaint: at times I find myself wanting more food chemistry info. Hopefully, there is a 2438 page, $461 solution.
Cook all of your food in plastic bags submerged in hot water!!!! You can even do it in a cooler tailgate style or if you want to impress everyone at a picnic. Or freak them out, because is food cooked in hot water in a cooler even safe to eat?!? Apparently the answer is yes. This is waaaaay towards the end of the "textbook masquerading as a cookbook" end of the cookbook spectrum, but it's still entertaining if just for the pictures alone.
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Modernist Cuisine recycled and republished for no particularly good reason. Even if you get past the expensive pointlessness of this book - what little new content there is (and that is very little) is plain worse than what was in the bigger and better Modernist Cuisine.
This is one of the most inspiring, most beautiful cookbooks I have ever owned, I've been able to follow a number of recipes fairly easily and I've been inspired to go out and get some of the non-conventional tools outlined to experiment some more.
Beautiful pictures, huge book, interesting, mind-blowing ideas. Too much for this humble girl on a diet to bear.
Just as stunning as it's older sibling, this book is a wonderful blend of food, science and masterful photography.
Gorgeous, gorgeous book. So glad I read it and gave in and got a sous vide machine to go along with it.
Fascinating methods and some very unique ingredients. Seemed more applicable to restaurant cooking rather than home cooking.
This is a truly remarkable book. Check it out if you love food, or photography, or the science of how things work. Especially seek it out if you love all three of those. I will be sad to take this tome back to the library. Not sure I will own it anytime soon at over $100 - so luck y my library had a copy. It is truly a master work. BEAUTIFUL!! I have tried one or two of the ideas found on these pages and could certainly come back to this over and over for unique ideas and inspiration.
Very beautiful and well structured. My favorite handbook.
Beautiful. Detailed.
Now I need a sous vide machine thingie. I'm very impressionable.
Now I need a sous vide machine thingie. I'm very impressionable.
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