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The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking
daeley writes "Wired has a feature on Alton Brown, host of FoodNetwork's Good Eats and favorite chef of geek foodies everywhere: The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking. AB has his own website, of course, and his own blog, of course. (If you are familiar with Alton's distinctive delivery, you can hear his voice as you read. My only complaint is that he doesn't write anywhere near often enough.) He's also been interviewed on Slashdot. From the Wired article: 'Brown, 41, is a culinary hacker, the poster boy for a movement that's coming to a boil in kitchens across America. The essence: Cooking is a science, not an art, informed by chemistry, physics, and biology. "Everything in food is science," Brown says. "The only subjective part is when you eat it."'"
finally I can wear a labcoat and a chefs hat in the kitchen and not feel like a dork.
"The Endocrinological Joy Of Sex"
From the article: :-P
"What other chef writes a script in which he gets punched in the head by Boxing Nun puppets named Tender and Flaky, as they fight over whether the two textural qualities can coexist in one pie crust?" Truly an American Icon
It is only edible by humans, I've never seen anything else touch my #2. And it never spoils (leave it out and it just gets hard, no mold, no green, no nothing!).
Culinary perfection.
food, sex, food, sex, food, sex...
Noononono. You've got it backwards. Biologists wish they were chemists. Chemists wish they were physicists (because ultimately, thats where the root of their studies is)... And physicists wish they were god (and ultimately, they are more likely to be more god-like than all of the above--Atom bomb and all).
Except perhaps that biologists could unleash plagues of locusts, by tweaking the environment, which is close enough. Chemists are just wanna-bees.
It would be great if Alton went over and smacked Bobby Flay upside the head with a meat tenderizer. Repeatedly. Hard.
Me looking in same fridge 10 sec later: "Eggs cheese, muchrooms and a chunk of left over ham. Omlettes coming right up."
Wife=happy.
And God wishes He were a mathematician.
so, can I call it "magneto-thermo-nuclear" cooking?
It's fatherland, not motherland, you stupid prick.
Of course, in Soviet Russia, that would be different...
Rachel Ray is hot!
Does that make Jamie Oliver java?
Hmm..if by that you mean "overhyped nonsense", then I guess so. But it's not really fair to Java.
Does that make Jamie Oliver java?
I would've went with python because of that huge tongue
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
I thought Physicists thought they were mathemeticians, who thought they were philosophers, who thought they were sociologists, who thought they were psychologists, who thought the were biologists, who thought they were chemists, who then thought they were physicists...
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman
So when a recipe calls for a certain amount of honey to be added to a dough that also includes flour and eggs, you're really just tweaking the bee-puke input in order to adjust yeast-shit output as a function of how many bird menstruation products you added.
(And yet, I still enjoy bread and beer, and am still hungry. Go figure.)
Dude, no matter how many times you call your right hand "your wife", or "a woman", it still won't come true. Best to realize that early.