Modernist Cuisine

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Mar. 19, 2011 Food & Drink

Nathan Myhrvold is an inventor and the co-author of the new 6-volume book Modernist Cuisine. An excerpt of the book appeared in Scientific American.

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Host:

Evan Kleiman

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Harriet Ells, Bob Carlson, Gillian Ferguson, Candace Moyer, Connie Alvarez, Laryl Garcia

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