Molecular Gastronomy

副标题: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

ISBN: 9780231133128

出版社: Columbia University Press

出版年: 2005-12-09

页数: 392

定价: USD 29.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Herve This (pronounced "Teess") is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierre Gagnaire, and the only person to hold a doctorate in molecular gastronomy, a cutting-edge field he pioneered. Bringing the instruments and experimental techniques of the laboratory into the kitchen, This uses recent research in the chemistry, physics, and biology of food to challenge traditional ideas about cooking and eating. What he discovers will entertain, instruct, and intrigue cooks, gourmets, and scientists alike. Molecular Gastronomy, This's first work to appear in English, is filled with practical tips, provocative suggestions, and penetrating insights. This begins by reexamining and debunking a variety of time-honored rules and dictums about cooking and presents new and improved ways of preparing a variety of dishes from quiches and quenelles to steak and hard-boiled eggs. He goes on to discuss the physiology of flavor and explores how the brain perceives tastes, how chewing affects food, and how the tongue reacts to various stimuli. Examining the molecular properties of bread, ham, foie gras, and champagne, the book analyzes what happens as they are baked, cured, cooked, and chilled. Looking to the future, Herve This imagines new cooking methods and proposes novel dishes. A chocolate mousse without eggs? A flourless chocolate cake baked in the microwave? Molecular Gastronomy explains how to make them. This also shows us how to cook perfect French fries, why a souffle rises and falls, how long to cool champagne, when to season a steak, the right way to cook pasta, how the shape of a wine glass affects the taste of wine, why chocolate turns white, and how salt modifies tastes.

作者简介

提斯（Hervé This）

分子美食之父，法蘭西學院物理院士、法國國家食品及農業局高級研究員，因創造分子美食學說之故，被譽為國寶級科學家。他不僅熱愛美食，更愛探討烹飪背後的化學與物理反應，巧妙地把實驗室變成了廚房。一九八○年代，提斯為了作出成功的舒芙蕾，一頭鑽進分子美食的研究裡，並與老搭檔克提（Nicolas Kurti）將這門科學定名為「分子美食」。自此掀起了飲食界的新風潮，也促使美食評論家、廚師接連探究食物背後的物理與化學之謎。

此後，提斯更與米其林三星名廚皮爾迦聶 (Pierre Gagnaire) 聯手創造出許多新穎的烹飪方式與菜餚，他們最新的使命，是把自然食物裡的色、香、味、口感一一在實驗室分離出來，然後在廚房進行重組，就像「用一個一個音符創造旋律」般，發明出前所未有的新食物。這點很可能會演變成頂級前衛餐飲的未來趨勢。

作者已出版多本著作，本書《Casseroles et éprouvettes》是他最重要的代表作，並發行英文版《Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor》。此外尚有《認識分子廚藝》（積木出版）等作品。在個人成就方面，提斯也獲得包括：法國廚師協會名譽會員、法國烹調學院名譽會員…等多項榮譽。

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