molecular gastronomy

Them Molecules Again

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

I actually made a Molecular Gastronomy recipe today that I was quite proud of. It’s Agar Agar Tomato Soup Spaghetti, invented by Ferran Adría of El Bulli.

There are two essential bits of kit needed for this recipe – a big chunky syringe, and lengths …

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Cooking With Molecules

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

I’ve mentioned my brief forays into Molecular Gastronomy, but haven’t posted any of my stunning successes yet. Mainly because there haven’t been any. If you read the blogs of people who dabble in this stuff, it seems the first thing everyone wants to t…

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Cooking 2.0

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

In recent weeks I’ve become quite interested in what I think of as Cooking 2.0, but which the rest of the planet calls Molecular Gastronomy. In case you haven’t stumbled across this, it’s a method for high-profile chefs to make vast sums of money by se…

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