The Long Look forward to the Iliad of contemporary Cooking, Modernist Cuisine [Modernist Cuisine]

Nathan Myhrvold, Bill Gates’ former right-hand man is widely known as the mastermind behind Intellectual Ventures . But he’s also an insane chef, who’s been working on the definitive guide to trendy cooking, a six-volume, 2400-page tome, Modernist Cuisine . It’s delayed.

Produced by a 15-person team with help from some of our favorite chefs, like David Chang and Wylie Dufresne, who variously describe it as ” amazing” and ” the cookbook to end all cookbooks,” the encyclopedia was alleged to drop in December. However’s been delayed partially for a very easy reason: It’s too heavy. The 40-pound package, which uses a custom-designed box-within-a-box as the shipping container, failed torture testing by Amazon.

So, we wait to peer untold scientific mysteries of food unraveled-with utterly amazing, ground-breaking food photography-until March. (Though which you could still pre-order it for $500 .) Within the meantime, that you may take a tour of the kitchen lab , that’s housed within the same warehouse as Intellectual Ventures. [ Modernist Cuisine via NYT , Seattle Food Geek ]

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