Watch and Learn Chefs on : "Modernist Cuisine" or "Molecular Gastronomy"?

Watch and Learn Chefs on : "Modernist Cuisine" or "Molecular Gastronomy

March 24, 2011
ZAGAT reported :Nathan Myhrvold's momentous Modernist Cuisine has raised some interesting questions in the culinary world. Who exactly will use the cookbook? Are chefs ready to embrace such a forward-thinking methodology? And, most immediately, what do we even call this new style of cooking? The term “molecular gastronomy” has been widely used, but with the publication of Myhrvold's new book, there's been a shift toward calling it simply "modernist" cuisine. At the recent, star-studded Modernist Breakfast at Jean Georges in NYC, we asked a few chefs for their thoughts on the name debate. Check out the above video for opinions from Ferran Adrià (el Bulli), Wylie Dufresne (WD-50), Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi and more.

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