Molecular Gastronomy

Exploring the Science of Flavor
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13313-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 207 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Reihe: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

Hervé 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, Hervé 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 soufflé 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

This, Hervé

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's PrefaceIntroduction to the English Language AdditionPart One: Secrets of the Kitchen1 Making Stock2 Clarifying Stock3 Hard-Boiled Eggs4 Quiches, Quenelles, and Puff Pastries5 Echaudes and Gnocchi6 The Well-Leavened Souffle7 Quenelles and Their Cousins8 Fondue9 Roasting Beef10 Seasoning Steak11 Wine and Marinades12 Color and Freshness13 Softening Lentils14 Souffleed Potatoes15 Preserves and Preserving Pans16 Saving a Creme Anglaise17 Grains of Salt18 Of Champagne and Teaspoons19 Coffee, Tea, and MilkPart Two: The Physiology of Flavor20 Food as Medicine21 Taste and Digestion22 Taste in the Brain23 Papillary Cells24 How Salt Affects Taste25 Detecting Tastes26 Bitter Tastes27 Hot Up Front28 The Taste of Cold29 Mastication30 Tenderness and Juiciness31 Measuring Aromas32 At Table in the Nursery33 Food Allergies34 Public Health AlertsPart Three: Investigations and Models35 The Secret of Bread36 Yeast and Bread37 Curious Yellow38 Gustatory Paradoxes39 The Taste of Food40 Lumps and Strings41 Foams42 Hard Sausage43 Spanish Hams44 Foie Gras45 Antioxidant Agents46 Trout47 Cooking Times48 The Flavor of Roasted Meats49 Tenderizing Meats50 Al Dente51 Forgotten Vegetables52 Preserving Mushrooms53 Truffles54 More Flavor55 French Fries56 Mashed Potatoes57 Algal Fibers58 Cheeses59 From Grass to Cheese60 The Tastes of Cheese61 Yogurt62 Milk Solids63 Sabayons64 Fruits in Syrup65 Fibers and Jams66 The Whitening of Chocolate67 Caramel68 Bread and Crackers69 The Terroirs of Alsace70 Length in the Mouth71 Tannins72 Yellow Wine73 Wine Without Dregs74 Sulfur and Wine75 Wine Glasses76 Wine and Temperature77 Champagne and its Foam78 Champagne in a Flute79 Demi Versus Magnum80 The Terroirs of Whisky81 Cartagenes82 TeaPart Four: A Cuisine for Tomorrow83 Cooking in a Vacuum84 Aromas or Reactions?85 Butter: A False Solid86 Liver Mousse87 In Praise of Fats88 Mayonnaises89 Aioli Generalized90 Orders of Magnitude91 Hundred-Year-Old Eggs92 Smoking Salmon93 Methods and Principles94 Pure Beef95 Fortified Cheeses96 Chantilly Chocolate97 Everything Chocolate98 Playing with Texture99 Christmas Recipes100 The Hidden Taste of Wine101 TeleolfactionGlossaryFurther ReadingIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Hervé This is a physical chemist of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in Paris. One of the two founders of the science called molecular gastronomy, he is the author of Columbia's Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking and of several other books on food and cooking. He is a monthly contributor to Pour la Science, the French-language edition of Scientific American.