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Life on the Road
I’m exactly halfway through my DIY Book Tour for Cooking for Geeks—day 22 of 44—and life on the road has already been an amazing experience. To date, I’ve given talks in Washington DC, Ft Lauderdale,...
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French Toast with KRON’s Henry Tenenbaum
Henry Tenenbaum from KRON Channel 4 and I had a lot of fun this past weekend in San Francisco making French Toast on their weekend morning show. Here’s the recipe for those who’ve requested it. The...
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Brownies In An Orange
Brownies In An Orange might not strike you as being geeky at first glance, but there’s tons of food science at work as those brownies cook. And if there’s one thing which defines a geek, it’s...
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Behind The Scenes: The Today Show
“There’s no biz like show biz”—ain’t that the truth—and live national TV is like nothing else. The Today Show broadcasts 4 hours of live content each day, five days a week. I cannot imagine the amount...
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Hacking Your Slow Cooker: D.I.Y. Sous Vide Setup
If you’re only going to try one thing from my book, Cooking for Geeks, I’d recommend sous vide—essentially ultra-low temperature poaching. By holding foods like eggs at precise temperatures, you can...
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What is it?
What is it? Leave your guesses in the comments… Answer here in a few days… (Answer now below.) And perhaps a cool prize or something, if I can figure out something suitably cool. Wow, you guys figured...
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How To Cook The Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey in Fifteen Minutes
Yes, that is a saw in my drying rack. Listen to an interview with me about this on KPCC! In a nutshell: sous vide the turkey breast and slow-cook the turkey legs. Fifteen minutes of “chef” time;...
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Talk @ Harvard – Dec 2nd, 7 pm, Barker Center
This Thursday, I’l be at Harvard (Thompson room of the Barker Center) giving a talk (and signing books if you bring a copy—I’ll have a few copies on-hand). Dara and Larissa at The Food Literacy...
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An Interview with Adam Savage of Mythbusters
For my book, Cooking for Geeks, I interviewed food scientists, researchers, and chefs; but one of my favorite interviews was the one I did with Adam Savage, co-host of Discovery Channel’s MythBusters....
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Poaching Salmon… Using the Office Toaster Oven
Greg Bocquet and I filmed a few fun short videos for TheStreet.com‘s site. Here’s one of them: poaching salmon in olive oil using your office toaster oven. Enjoy!
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Hello, Internet. I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted much of, well … anything. I’m sorry. It’s been a busy few months; I missed you too. The book came out, and then ran out of stock, then came...
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What It’s Like Shooting For TV: 30-Second Chocolate Cake
I shot a segment showing me making this “30-Second Chocolate Cake” for The Cooking Channel‘s show Food(ography), with the “30 second” bit referring to how long it takes to cook, and possibly eat, but...
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Cooking for Geeks Party
I’m sitting in a café in sunny LA with the goofiest of grins on my face, because of an email I just received: I received your book as a present from my 12-year-old brother for Christmas last year and...
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Best Email EVER
Look what someone at my publisher sent me: Subject: Very Important O’Reilly Questions To: (Someone At My Publisher) 1. do you know the author of this book, about which i received a press release this...
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My Authors@Google Talk
I recently spoke about Cooking for Geeks at Google’s Cambridge office, and they’ve posted a video of the talk on YouTube. If you’d like to hear me speak about food science and the kitchen, this is the...
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Announcing “Awesome Food”– part of The Awesome Foundation
The Awesome Foundation now has a new chapter—Awesome Food—of which I’m a trustee. Details in the below press release! Awesome Food now accepting applications for$1,000 microgrants July 20th, 2011...
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Awesome Food announces $1000 grant to CompostMobile
I’m delighted to announce that Awesome Food (of which I’m a trustee) has selected our first $1,000 micro-grant: CompostMobile. I had the great joy of calling Jennifer to tell her the good news, and...
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Wanted: Your Food Questions
Dear Internet: what questions do you have about food? Or food science? Ever wonder why certain foods cook the way they do? Or certain dishes call for the ingredients they do? Or maybe you have a recipe...
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Looking for Single Cook for TV Show
My life continues to be full of unexpected surprises. A few days ago, I received an email asking if I was single and “would you be interested in being the star of a TV show where a bunch of beautiful...
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SNAP Gardens and Dinner Garden receive Awesome Food grant to promote food...
I’m delighted to announce this month’s Awesome Food grant has been awarded to a great project that helps get the word out about using food stamps to buy supplies for growing your own food. Here’s the...
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