Latest Nathan Myhrvold Quotes from Interviews

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• The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply modern techniques. The other approach is to create food that is quite different than anything that has existed before.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Two, Cooking, Technique

  "Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine 'Culinary History Has To Be Analyzed Like Art History'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 21, 2011.

• Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little bit of lemon juice - or, in other words, make mayonnaise - you are using the principles of physics and chemistry. Understanding how those principles affect cooking lets you cook better.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Law, Oil, Understanding

  "Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine 'Culinary History Has To Be Analyzed Like Art History'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 21, 2011.

• I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Art, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Scotch, Alcohol, Taste

  Source: www.spiegel.de