From our US friends.

Hello all,


The October meeting of the Experimental Cuisine Collective will take place on Saturday, October 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Chemistry Department at NYU, room 1003 (31 Washington Place, between Washington Square Park and Greene Street). You will need a photo ID to enter the building.



In his presentation, The Prism of Flavors, White House Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses will focus on emulsions, foams, and gels to discuss how he seeks to better understand ingredients and techniques. As he takes us from the beginning of cooking to today's technology, he will also demonstrate recipes that illustrate the principles driving his pastry work.



Chef Yosses, author of The Perfect Finish, joined the White House in 2007. There, his role also includes beekeeping and gardening, in line with First Lady Michelle Obama's efforts to promote healthy eating. During his outstanding career in New York restaurants, he ran the pastry kitchens of Josephs Citarella, Bouley, Tavern on the Green, and Montrachet. Click here for a 2010 New York Times profile.


Please RSVP at ecc102011.eventbrite.com. A link is also posted on our website. If you RSVP and can no longer make it, please let me know so that your seat can be released. Thank you.

All my best,

Anne

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Anne E. McBride
Director, Experimental Cuisine Collective
ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL CUISINE COLLECTIVE
The Experimental Cuisine Collective is a working group that assembles scholars, scientists, chefs, writers, journalists, performance artists, and food enthusiasts. We launched in April 2007, as a result of the collaboration of Kent Kirshenbaum of the chemistry department and Amy Bentley of the nutrition, food studies, and public health department at New York University with Chef Will Goldfarb of WillPowder. Our overall aim is to develop a broad-based and rigorous academic approach that employs techniques and approaches from both the humanities and sciences to examine the properties, boundaries, and conventions of food.

Visit the ECC online at www.experimentalcuisine.com.

A message from NYC

Hello all,   The March  meeting of the Experimental Cuisine Collective will take place on Wednesday, March 14, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Chemistry Department at NYU, room 1003 (31 Washington Place, between Washington Square Park and Greene Street). You will need a photo ID to enter the building.    How Chocolate Gets Its Taste, with Clay Gordon Chocolate - one of the most chemically complex foods known to food science - is different from most other foods in many ways, but one of the key differences is that the vast majority of chocolate is made thousands of miles from where the primary raw ingredient is grown. This geopolitical and cultural disconnect leads (in part) to an enormous gap in awareness and appreciation (especially when compared with wine, for example) of the interplay between terroir, post-harvest processing techniques - which should be considered to be an inextricable part of terroir for many foods, not just chocolate - and manufacturing processes on the flavor of a finished chocolate. This presentation will cover the key aspects that affect flavor development in cacao and chocolate from the tree to a finished bar and will cover the individual and collective contributions that genetics, agricultural practices, post-harvest processing (including fermentation and drying), and manufacturing (specifically roasting and conching) processes have on the development of flavor in chocolate. Selected pairings of chocolates will be used to highlight how slight differences in terroir, magnified by the choices that chocolate makers make, can yield completely different finished products. Please RSVP at ecc032012.eventbrite.com. A link is also posted on our website. If you RSVP and can no longer make it, please let me know so that your seat can be released. Thank you.   All my best, Anne  ---- Anne E. McBride Director, Experimental Cuisine Collective

ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL CUISINE COLLECTIVE The Experimental Cuisine Collective is a working group that assembles scholars, scientists, chefs, writers, journalists, performance artists, and food enthusiasts. We launched in April 2007, as a result of the collaboration of Kent Kirshenbaum of the chemistry department and Amy Bentley of the nutrition, food studies, and public health department at New York University with Chef Will Goldfarb of WillPowder. Our overall aim is to develop a broad-based and rigorous academic approach that employs techniques and approaches from both the humanities and sciences to examine the properties, boundaries, and conventions of food. Visit the ECC online at www.experimentalcuisine.com.

A new forum

During the 2012 Courses on Molecular Gastronomy, the possibility of a forum for discussing Note by Note Cuisine was decided.

It is not open at :
http://www.agroparistech.fr/forums/

Vive la gourmandise éclairée!

In NYC

I forward a message from Anne McBribe :

Hello all,

 

The February meeting of the Experimental Cuisine Collective will take place on Thursday, February 16, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Chemistry Department at NYU, room 1003 (31 Washington Place, between Washington Square Park and Greene Street). You will need a photo ID to enter the building.

  

This meeting will center around The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking (Columbia University Press, 2012). The editors and authors---chefs, scientists, and hybrids thereof---of this compilation of essays make a case for science inspired by the kitchen, where culinary knowledge is advanced by testing hypotheses rooted in the physical and chemical properties of foods. Using traditional and cutting-edge tools, ingredients, and techniques, the contributors to this unique anthology create, and sometimes revamp, dishes that respond to specific desires and serve up an original encounter with gastronomic practice.

  

From the seemingly mundane grilled cheese sandwich, pizza, and soft-boiled egg to Turkish ice cream, sugar glasses, and jellified beads, the essays in The Kitchen as Laboratory cover the chemistry, physics, history, and culture of a wide range of culinary creations. Editor-in-Chief César Vega, PhD, will discuss the motivations, contents, and anecdotes behind the making of The Kitchen as Laboratory, looking at science just as much as gastronomy. He will be joined by contributors Arielle Johnson (UC Davis) and Tom Tongue (IFP), who will present the research featured in their respective chapters.

Please RSVP at ecc0212.eventbrite.com. A link is also posted on our website. If you RSVP and can no longer make it, please let me know so that your seat can be released. Thank you.  

All my best,

Anne 

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Anne E. McBride
Director, Experimental Cuisine Collective

Vient de paraître (janvier 2012)

Vient de paraître (janvier 2012)

Nos aliments sont-ils dangereux ? 60 clés pour comprendre notre alimentation (240 pages)

Pierre FEILLET Editions QUAE

60 questions dont l’auteur vous livre des clés pour mieux comprendre le « système alimentaire », celui qui débute dans les champs et se termine dans notre corps.

Pour commander en ligne : www.quae.com

It will be very exciting... and in French

Cours de gastronomie moléculaire 2012


La cuisine note à note
animé par Hervé This


Cours publics (dans la limite des places disponibles, pas de réservation), gratuits (il n'est pas vrai que ce qui ne se paye pas n'a pas de valeur!), non diplomants (attestation sur demande), sur inscriptions à http://www.agroparistech.fr/Inscription-aux-cours-de.html


30 janvier 2012

Séance 1 :
Lieu : AgroParisTech, 16 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris

9.00 : Gilles Trystram, directeur général d'AgroParisTech : bienvenue
9.15-10.30 : Hervé This : la « cuisine note à note », tendance de demain... durable !

10.30 : pause
11.00-12.00 : Jean Louis Escudier (INRA Pech Rouge, Centre INRA de Montpellier)  : le fractionnement du vin
12.00-12.30 : Discussions

Séance 2 :
Lieu : AgroParisTech, 16 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris

14.00-15.50: Stanislas Baudouin (Société Seprosys/Dow Chemicals) : démonstration pratique des méthodes d'extraction (nanofiltrations, osmoses directes ou inverses, distillations...)
15.30-17.30: démonstrations culinaires par des Chefs de l'Association des Toques blanches internationales, Jean-Pierre Lepeltier (Hôtel Renaissance, Paris La Défense), Vincent Vitasse (Hôtel Concorde Lafayette, Paris), Julien Mercier (Pullmann Bercy, Paris), Michael Foubert (L'aventure, Paris)
17.30/18.00 : Débats


31 janvier

Séance 3 :
Lieu : AgroParisTech, Avenue du Maine

9.00-10.00 : Frédéric Lesourd, Chef Enseignant de l'Ecole du Cordon bleu : un repas note à note !
10.00-11.00 : Claire Gaudichon, Professeur AgroParisTech : la question nutritionnelle
11.00-12.30 : Hervé This

Séance 4 :
Lieu : AgroParisTech, Avenue du Maine

14.00-15.30 Robert Anton (Université de Strasbourg) : la question toxicologique
15.30-17.00 : Pierre Combris : la question économique
17.00/18.00 : Discussions






Les intervenants :
● Robert Anton :
Faculté de pharmacie d'Illkirch/Strasbourg :
anton@unistra.fr

● Stanislas Baudouin
40 rue chef de Baie
17000 La Rochelle France
tel: +33(0)681683526
Fax:+33(0)546349461
stanislas.baudouin@seprosys.com

● Pierre Combris
Directeur de Recherche
INRA UR1303 ALISS
65 Bd de Brandebourg F-94200 Ivry sur Seine
tel : +33 (0)1 49 59 69 23

● Jean-Louis Escudier :
Ingénieur de recherche, INRA de Pech Rouge/Montpellier
escudier@supagro.inra.fr

● Claire Gaudichon
INRA/AgroParisTech
16 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris.

● Jean-Pierre Lepeltier :
Hôtel Renaissance de la Défense et Association des Toques blanches
60 Jardin de Valmy, Boulevard Circulaire, Sortie 7, 92918 Paris
01 41 97 50 50 ou 50 12
j-p-lep@hotmail.fr

Frédéric Lesourd :
Ecole du Cordon bleu
9 rue Léon Delhomme, 75005 Paris





Retrouvez les podcasts des cours précédents sur http://podcast.agroparistech.fr/users/gastronomiemoleculaire


Et aussi :

Un site avec une montagne d'informations sur la gastronomie moléculaire :
http://sites.google.com/site/travauxdehervethis/

Un blog personnel (j'y évoque des questions intellectuelles, à propos de la
science, de la technologie, de la technique, de l'art...) :
http://hervethis.blogspot.com/

Un blog consacré à la gastronomie moléculaire, avec moins de points de vue
personnels : http://gastronomie-moleculaire.blogspot.com/

Le site du Laboratoire de chimie d'AgroParisTech, avec des informations
complémentaires : http://www.agroparistech.fr/-UFR-Chimie-analytique-.html

In New York

Hello all,


The January meeting of the Experimental Cuisine Collective will take place on Wednesday, January 18, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Chemistry Department at NYU, room 1003 (31 Washington Place, between Washington Square Park and Greene Street). You will need a photo ID to enter the building.



Michael J Cirino is the voice and creative director of the culinary performance art group a razor, a shiny knife, which hosts educational, social and theatrical experiences. The group produces events around the world that push the boundaries of what is possible and expected to happen around a kitchen and table. For the past five years, Mr. Cirino has sought to redefine the guest/host relationship and create a space in the culinary world for a different paradigms of social interaction around food that fits outside of the restaurant and home kitchen. This conversation will explore the traditional roles of the host and the guest, the rewards that each role seeks to obtain, and start a conversation on how we can all take these roles and pervert them into something ridiculous and inspiring.

Please RSVP at ecc012012.eventbrite.com. A link is also posted on our website. If you RSVP and can no longer make it, please let me know so that your seat can be released. Thank you.

All my best,

Anne

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Anne E. McBride
Director, Experimental Cuisine Collective