So you really love "molecular gastronomy"?
#1
Posted 28 December 2011 - 06:34 PM
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
#2
Posted 28 December 2011 - 06:56 PM
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
#3
Posted 28 December 2011 - 08:23 PM
#4
Posted 28 December 2011 - 08:53 PM
Blumenthal on hospital food.
(One might have thought that someone notorious for poisoning people would refrain from pontificating on food as medicine.)
#5
Posted 28 December 2011 - 09:21 PM
medicine/poison, you're splitting hairs, no?The This book is fine. A sort of anecdotal version of McGee -- how to make the perfect souffle and so on. And there's nothing wrong with the idea, but much evil is done in the name of MG. Talking of which...
Blumenthal on hospital food.
(One might have thought that someone notorious for poisoning people would refrain from pontificating on food as medicine.)
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
#6
Posted 28 December 2011 - 10:04 PM
medicine/poison, you're splitting hairs, no?
The This book is fine. A sort of anecdotal version of McGee -- how to make the perfect souffle and so on. And there's nothing wrong with the idea, but much evil is done in the name of MG. Talking of which...
Blumenthal on hospital food.
(One might have thought that someone notorious for poisoning people would refrain from pontificating on food as medicine.)
I'm not sure how many people get that beyond the 3 of us! Thanks for the snort.
#7
Posted 28 December 2011 - 10:05 PM
i live to serve
medicine/poison, you're splitting hairs, no?
The This book is fine. A sort of anecdotal version of McGee -- how to make the perfect souffle and so on. And there's nothing wrong with the idea, but much evil is done in the name of MG. Talking of which...
Blumenthal on hospital food.
(One might have thought that someone notorious for poisoning people would refrain from pontificating on food as medicine.)
I'm not sure how many people get that beyond the 3 of us! Thanks for the snort.
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*












