Best Of Science: Kenji and Nathan Myhrvold

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Welcome to the first Best of the Upsell! hosted by Amanda Kludt and Daniel Geneen (aka apdan). 2:00 Amanda ate at Vespertine!! 6:30 J. Kenji López-Alt interview 32:00 Amanda and Dan talk about Dan being weird with guests 38:00 Nathan Myhrvold interview After getting his start in restaurant and test kitchens in Boston, Kenji created The Food Lab, a column on Serious Eats dedicated to lassoing the laws of science and riding them to home cooking success every time. In the subsequent six years, the “Kenji method” has blown up, but despite being a cult phenomenon and bestselling cookbook author, Kenji himself is just about as cool and down to earth as you can get. Air date: 2/18/2016 twitter.com/kenjilopezalt Nathan Myhrvold is the wildly successful businessman/scientist/tech guru behind Modernist Cuisine, a self-published culinary encyclopedia that demystifies the world of high-end gastronomy. Nathan also released a spinoff, Modernist Cuisine at Home, and he’s working on another volume focusing entirely on bread. Air date: 2/13/2017 nathanmyhrvold.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, welcome to the Eater Upsell, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:08.0	I am Daniel Janine, the producer of the show, and with me is Amanda Clute our editor in chief. Hello Amanda.
0:15.0	Hi Dan. We are putting together some best of episodes for the next few weeks
0:20.6	while our dear co-host Helen and Greg take a much
0:24.8	deserve break from interviewing some of the best and brightest people in the world
0:28.3	of food and culture. This episode is called the Best of Science. It's probably the Best of Science dudes because they're both dudes.
0:36.0	Best of Science dudes. And they kind of both actually talk about in their episodes how all their fans are dudes.
0:42.0	I've spent some time distilling these two
0:44.4	episodes into perfect little 20 to 25 minute versions of themselves, and we're
0:49.8	going to get to Kenji, but first, Amanda, let's talk about Vespritine because you went and it is something that we talk about all the time on this podcast and on Eater
1:00.6	Vespritine for those who don't know, is a white-hot Los Angeles opening by Chef Jordan Khan.
1:08.7	It is a 22-seat restaurant tasting menu for about $250 a person according to
1:15.7	Talk the online restaurant ticket service but Jordan Khan would like you to believe
1:21.4	that Vespritin was a portal between Earth and space and I don't know you're entering new dimensions or something anyway you wrote about it and you titled your newsletter the most important
1:34.5	restaurant news in years opening maybe yeah was that like I like someone else
1:41.1	might have titled that for me but it is it is it was it's the most interesting restaurant
1:45.2	opening for sure because the chef Jordan Khan is making it so right it's that he's very ambitious and what it is. It's an expensive tasting menu.
1:55.0	It takes up a whole building. The building was designed. I don't know if it was
1:59.5	designed especially for him, but it was an architect who he's become friendly with.
2:05.0	What are they going to do with it after if it doesn't work?
2:07.0	I don't know.
2:08.0	I was saying, I was joking, this is a mean joke by that, I'm very excited for when it turns into
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