Nathan Myhrvold

PHOTOS: Modernist Cuisine's Ambitious New Project

Posted 05.30.2012

When "Modernist Cuisine" was released last year, it landed with a pretty loud thud -- the six-volume cookbook is rather heavy! The book quickly was ha...

WATCH: Nathan Myhrvold Demos Liquid Nitrogen Burger On 'Kimmel'

Posted 02.23.2012

"Modernist Cuisine" author Nathan Myhrvold has a very specific perfect burger: He poaches ground beef patties sous vide for half an hour, then plun...

How This Photo Was Taken

Posted 09.17.2011

One ballyhooed feature of Nathan Myhrvold's mammoth cooking tome Modernist Cuisine was its photography. Readers marveled at photos of popcorn popping ...

Nathan Myrhvold: Best Burgers Need Liquid Nitrogen, Deep-Frying

Posted 08.07.2011

Nathan Myrhvold thinks he can make a better burger than Daniel Boulud. In a symposium commemorating the 10th anniversary of the foie gras-filled db bu...

On Rocky IV, Modernist Cuisine, and Keeping the (Kitchen) Romance Alive

Elizabeth Gunnison | Posted 06.05.2011

Elizabeth Gunnison

Maybe cooking, like athletics, can be divided into two camps: the rationalists and the romantics. Ivan Drago is Nathan Mhyrold; Rocky is Julia Child.

Nathan Myhrvold Claims 'Something For Everybody' In Modernist Cuisine

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Nathan Myhrvold stopped by the Institute of Culinary Education in New York last night to demo some of the dishes featured in his new five-volume cookb...

Michael Ruhlman Reviews The 5-Volume 'Modernist Cuisine'

Michael Ruhlman in the New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

DESCENDING this week on the culinary scene like a meteor, "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking" is the self-published six-volume masterw...

Medical Inventions: A Sneak Peak

TEDMED | Posted 05.25.2011

Inventor Nathan Myhrvold gave the audience at TEDMED a peek into a few of the creative medical inventions he has in the works. A former CTO at Micr...

Inside The Modernist Cuisine Kitchen Laboratory

Popular Science | Posted 05.25.2011

In 2008, Dr. Nathan Myhrvold began to carve out a portion of the 20,000-square-foot warehouse outside Seattle that houses the research lab of Intellec...

Grant Achatz To Appear on Martha Stewart

NBC's Feast | Posted 05.25.2011

Remember when Martha Stewart's cameras were all up in Alinea's grills earlier this year? Looks like Grant Achatz is off chilling with ol' M. Diddy for...

Bill Gates Invests $35 Million In Nuclear Reactor

MarketWatch | John Letzing | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has contributed to an additional $35 million investment round for TerraPower LLC, a...