I know what you're talking about and it's been a while but I remember it being kind of a headscratcher. He says some stuff about innovation and then mentions bauhaus but (in my memory at least) failed to connect the book or his approach to cooking to the modernist movement in a compelling way. And also failed to convince me that he knew anything about modernism except the name and a vague association with mid-20th-century aesthetics.

>failed to connect the book or his approach to cooking to the modernist movement in a compelling way

I had a completely different reaction to it, but then, I wasn't a member of the modernist movement.

I just like food that tastes good.