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Food Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
- I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat…
- Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
- If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
- If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
- Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
- The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
- I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or…
- Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain…
- Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things…
- The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is…
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- Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
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- I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat. — Tyra Banks