A large box containing a sous vide supreme demi arrived at my door yesterday. It felt a little like Christmas, except with $1000 kitchen toys to test-drive instead of ugly sweaters. That being said, the idea of flavourful food vacuum-sealed then cooked long and slow made me … [Read more...] about Review: The Sous Vide Supreme Demi, Perfect Eggs and Steak and Reasons to Have 15 Children
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On the Hunt for Modernist Cuisine
It's 6:15am and I'm in the Montreal airport. This is much too early to be writing about sous vide machines, centrifuges, siphons and rotary evaporators in any intelligent way. Is there a time for that? According to the authors of Modernist Cuisine it is. Maybe I'll ask them that … [Read more...] about On the Hunt for Modernist Cuisine
My Article in the Montreal Gazette: Molecular Cuisine, Sous Vide, and Montreal Restaurants with Delicious Green Spheres
A few months back I interviewed Maxime Bilet and Dr. Hervé This, one chef/inventor and one chemist on molecular gastronomy and modernist cuisine. While the conversation drifted to terminology, we found out way back to talking about the basics of the modernist cooking techniques … [Read more...] about My Article in the Montreal Gazette: Molecular Cuisine, Sous Vide, and Montreal Restaurants with Delicious Green Spheres