What you're essentially talking about is Molecular Gastronomy / Modernist Cuisine, pioneered by food scientists in the 1950's (think: food coloring) and turned into serious science by Ferran Adria at El Bulli. While El Bulli is long closed, the techniques live on. I've eaten their menu and I can tell you it's truly epic what they were able to achieve. <div>
It's continued today by people like Albert Adria (his son) and Grant Achatz at places like Alinea in Chicago. Wylie Dufresne's WD-50 in NYC is another fine example.<br><div><br></div><div>Nathan Myrhvold put out an outstanding book on this called Modernist Cuisine (<a href="http://modernistcuisine.com/">http://modernistcuisine.com/</a>) that goes into the history, recipes, and techniques of this sort of food preparation. The book is expensive, but PDFs are floating around on Torrent sites. Find it. </div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Here in SF, you'll see some these techniques at places like Coi and Atelier Crenn. Lots of foams and powers are in their dishes. </div><div><br></div><div>I've eaten at most of these and I suggest you make it out them if you can afford it. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Start here...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferran_Adri%C3%A0">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferran_Adri%C3%A0</a></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Glen Jarvis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glen@glenjarvis.com" target="_blank">glen@glenjarvis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Trolling ThinkGeek as I do, I ran into this product:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e71f/" target="_blank">http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e71f/</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's a starter kit for taking food and making different things happen through chemical knowledge (like making spaghetti out of tomato soup; fruit juice caviar etc.) </div>
<div><br></div><div>This video is also interesting in similar ways. For example, to make a liquid center inside of an ice cream, they changed the melting point of vinegar, froze it with dry ice, and then inserted into center of vanilla ice cream: </div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0zIROhjAs" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0zIROhjAs</a></div><div><br></div><div>These concepts feel so 'taste bridgy" and fun... </div>
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</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Glen</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>
<p>"Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life as a dog does his master's chase. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."</p>
<p>--Henry David Thoreau</p><br>
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