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Nathan Myhrvold - what an amazing man of many talents. I am amazed at his talents and interests and how he can push the boundaries in so many fields.

• diego_moita 6y ago
  > how he can push the boundaries in so many fields. He is, pretty much, a parasite hiding behind a ton of hype and useless fluff, like snowflake pictures. First he made tons of money as a patent troll. To hide his dirty business he fascinated journalists with a machine he created to kill mosquitoes with lasers to fight malaria and yellow fever. No journalist bothered to realize that malaria infested places rarely have electricity to run that machine. Then he wrote a U$ 600 book (Modernist Cuisine) on how to make over-pretensious risottos and steaks using over-expensive equipment and chemistry. No serious cook follows any recipe in that book anymore. Now his next trick to show off is snowflake pictures. Yep, the man surely has both the know-how and the money to put up an irrelevant and pretentious show-off.
  • melq 6y ago
    He may be a scumbag patent troll, but Modernist Cuisine was a hugely important work in the food world. The techniques and recipes in it are most certainly used all the time in professional kitchens. It's a 600 dollar book for restaurants that are charging 250 pre fixes. Alot of the equiptment used in it are super common these days, immersion circulators, combi ovens, vacuum sealers etc.