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On Food And Cooking is AMAZING. McGee used to live in Palo Alto too. I just bought the Thomas Keller Sous Vide book. I'll probably buy the myrhvold book too.

• tptacek 16y ago
  The Flavor Bible is also fun to flip to an arbitrary page in and read in either direction, but it really wants to be a web app, doesn't it? (There's obviously a bunch of web apps that try, but they don't have the curation that the book has). I don't know if you've been following Myrhvold's cooking stuff, but my understand is that there's a fair bit of mythbusting going on too; he gave a talk recently where he claimed to debunk the notion that you have to poach duck in fat to confit it, for instance (lies! all lies!). My cofounder Dave is a cooking school grad and he's sure that this book is going to be hugely important, even if you already have McGee. But, $500 for a book!
  • pchristensen 16y ago
    6 books, 2400 pages. That's less than a nickel a page, or ~$80 per volume. There, now you're justified, I just gave you an 85% discount per book :)
  • joshu 16y ago
    Oh, totally. Do you know about foodsubs.com? should we just set up a HN instance for cooking, or what? I just bought the polyscience smoke injector thing. This weekend's going to be tasty.
    • tptacek 16y ago
      I have an actual smoker in my garage, but my partner Dave just built his own smoke gun out of $15 bucks worth of parts. Write something up about your smoke injector thingy so we can all talk about smoked food next!
    • tptacek 16y ago
      I have an actual smoker in my garage, but my partner Dave just built his own smoke gun out of $15 bucks worth of parts. Write something up about your smoke injector thingy so we can all talk about smoked food next!