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chefs + restaurants

Going Bananas Over a Plate of Pasta

The menu from chef Michael Voltaggio started with abalone and cuttlefish in an abalone shell and topped with a puff of "pad Thai" foam.
03.30.07
recipes

Crema Catalana Foam

We know and love the molded custard dessert called crema catalana, but here it takes a more dynamic form. This foam is sexier than whipped cream and is especially delicious on berries.
January 2007
recipes

Carrot Foam with Chocolate Sorbet

Adrià serves his foam over mandarin-orange or bitter-cocoa granita and dusts a bit of fragrant curry on the plate.
January 2007
chefs + restaurants

Science Chefs: Ian's Take

I wonder if the science-food trend hasn’t gone too far. Molecular gastronomy, whimsically interesting though it may be, does not equal molecular satisfaction.
11.15.06
chefs + restaurants

Science Chefs: Alan's Take

When you try wd~50's monkfish liver with persimmon and smoked green tea, you realize you weren’t quite that prepared.
11.15.06
magazine

Proving It

Taking kitchen science to a whole new (molecular) level, Hervé This is changing the way France—and the world—cooks.
January 2005
magazine

The Gastronauts

We've been cooking like cavemen since man first found fire. But with scientists invading the kitchen, reports Daniel Zwerdling, all that is about to change.
October 2001
recipes

Chocolate Ganache Cakes with White-Coffee Foam

The coffee foam attains its consistency with the help of a charged siphon. If you don't own one, don't worry—the coffee mixture can also be served, chilled but unfoamed, as a sauce.
October 2000
magazine

A Kitchen was His Laboratory

Elizabeth David's books on French and Italian country cooking in the 1950s revealed a world of real food uninhabited by the high priests of haute cuisine.
March 1970
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