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Eater's Digest

Nathan Myhrvold Is the Bruce Wayne of the Culinary World

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Food, Arts, News Commentary, Improv, News

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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. During his chat with Helen and Greg, Myhrvold drops some knowledge about baking bread, building nuclear reactors, and barbecuing dinosaurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Greg here.

0:04.0

Welcome back to the Eater Upsell.

0:06.0

It's season three and that person that's sitting right across the digital table from me is none other

0:10.8

than Helen Rosner.

0:11.8

I'm your co-host on this magical audio journey.

0:14.5

It's great to be back podcasting with you, Helen.

0:17.9

Heck yeah, we have an awesome third season

0:20.3

of the Eater Upsell coming up.

0:21.6

You will listen to it unfold over the forthcoming weeks

0:24.0

but today Greg and I are super psyched to have with us in the studio a man who is

0:29.8

basically the Batman of the food world.

0:32.8

Yeah, it's Nathan Merevold, who is this guy

0:36.2

who worked in the tech world, in the science world,

0:39.9

and he made a gazillion dollars, and he put all his money into this lab and the science

0:45.7

center so that he could learn more about food and how it all works and how you should

0:50.0

cook it.

0:51.0

So Nathan Mervold is one of the forces behind Modernist

0:54.4

Cuazine, the gigantic multi-volume multi-hundred dollar cookbook that took the

0:58.4

Food World by storm a few years ago, and he has a brand new modernist cuisine

1:03.0

addition coming out very soon and it's all about bread.

1:06.5

If you're into science or food or eating,

1:08.6

I think that you might have some aha moment

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