Forgot to mention you, in the case that you already did not see it. The Game-Changing Cookbook Nathan Myhrvold's 2,400-page 'Modernist Cuisine' upends everything you thought you knew about cooking Here's the recipe for the most astonishing cookbook of our time: Take one multimillionaire computer genius, a team of 36 researchers, chefs and editors and a laboratory specially built for cooking experiments. After nearly four years of obsessive research, assemble 2,400 pages of results into a 47- pound, six-volume collection that costs $625 and requires four pounds of ink to print. To call inventor Nathan Myhrvold's "Modernist Cuisine: The Art & Science of Cooking," on sale next month, a "cookbook" is akin to calling James Joyce's "Ulysses" "a story? The book is a large-scale investigation into the math, science and physics behind cooking tasks from making juicy and crisp beer- can chicken to coating a foie-gras bonbon in sour cherry gel. There is precedent in this genre—science EFTA_R1_00488827 EFTA01994724