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A comment on Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking.

Re:Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking by skyyler on Monday February 24, 2025 @02:44PM (#43164006)
It's sold as a reference material, but the photography inside is beautiful.

Even if you think the techniques are outside of your reach, it's a really lovely "cookbook" to look through.

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Re:Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking by alwa on Monday February 24, 2025 @07:13PM (#43166539)
Later sold separately as a standalone volume, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine

https://modernistcuisine.com/books/photography-of-modernist-...

I remember being especially excited about the cutaways: photos of actual cooking apparatus sliced in half on a water jet, then photographed in the act of cooking. Some background on how that came to be:

https://seattlefoodgeek.com/2011/11/cutting-your-cookware-in...

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Re:Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking by gilbertbw on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @04:32AM (#43182207)
There are also some lovely cut in half shots in Chris Young's YouTube videos (one of the people that worked on Modernist Cuisine). e.g. https://youtu.be/IZY8xbdHfWk?t=239

Also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43165566

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