The Food Seen

On today’s THE FOOD SEEN, Nathan Myhrvold has always been ambitious, cooking his family a full Thanksgiving dinner at the age of 9, graduating high school at 14, two Masters degrees and a PHD in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at 23 from Princeton, and postdoctoral cosmology work at the University of Cambridge with Stephen Hawking for more than a brief history of time. But there was something about that cooking process that stuck with him, even through his years at Microsoft as Chief Technology Officer. He asked Bill Gates for a leave of absence to attend cooking school in France, but first he had to stagé at a restaurant 1 day/wk for 2 years to get in. He did that. And kept cooking. And kept questioning why we cooked the way we do. The Cooking Lab was then founded, a place where he could experiment with new techniques, equipment, and ideas … so he wrote a book called “Modernist Cuisine”, a 5 volume, 2000 plus page, 40 lb tome. And if that wasn’t enough, he released an “At Home” compendium. And now, “The