In any field involving a creative endeavor, people who make things up have this dream of making money off of it. And ideas, once exposed to the world, are pretty easy to look at and recreate. Physical objects, by and large, require at least as much money to recreate as they did to make in [...]
Khymos.org has wrapped up its most recently flavor pairing challenge “They Go Really Well Together” (TGRWT) #11: Banana and Cloves. The TGRWT challenges are a general web challenge to create new dishes that use a non-traditional flavor pairing.
I have not participated in the TGRWT challenges yet, but they’re always fascinating. I wrote about them [...]
There’s this web site called twitter. It’s at twitter.com. The purpose of it is to allow people to basically say what they’re up to in 140 characters or less. It also let’s you get an idea of what various people you’re interested in are doing. Not a site for complex philosophy, but it’s good to [...]
Harold McGee never fails to make me interested:
The Essence of Nearly Anything, Drop by Limpid Drop - New York Times: “Think of such liquids as essences. They have no fibers, no pulp, no fat, no substance at all. They’re just flavor in fluid form, perhaps with a tinge of color, like a classic beef consommé. [...]
Finally. As millions of teeming fans have requested, I’m doing an episode on Molecular Gastronomy. Woo! Okay, nobody asked, but it’s been on my mind, so I figured I’d give the basic ideas behind the concept, what it means today, an what it might mean in the future.
Show Links
Khymos.org, and its blog
Harold McGee’s blog
The [...]
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