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Cooking for Geeks

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Cooking for Geeks

Monday, November 1, 2010

The New York Academy of Sciences

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From baking cakes to sautéing steaks, Jeff Potter explains the hard science behind the magic of cooking in his book Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks and Good Food. Unlike a traditional cookbook, Jeff’s book is “a compendium of food science, interviews, and experiments, with recipes to tie it all together.” In addition, he describes how the combination of the hacker’s mindset and a love of cooking inspired him to delve into the science of cooking. Find answers to questions such as:

  • How protein denaturalization is the key between hard and soft boiled eggs, and medium steaks vs. steak tartare?
  • Why do you need a copper bowl when making meringue?
  • What’s the difference between whipped and regular butter?
  • How can liquid nitrogen help make the best ice cream?


What is a geek? Jeff Potter defines it as “anyone who likes to get into the details of how things work”. Join us to see him demonstrate simple and tasty activities that you can recreate at home.

Speaker

Jeff Potter

When asked: Who are you? How’d you get into cooking?

Jeff Potter answered: Well, I’m the “Geek” in “Cooking for Geeks.” My background is software engineering; I’ve worked with a number of web and tech startup companies for the past decade, usually writing code and building the first prototype of a product. (I’m a “version one” guy, if that makes sense.)

When it comes to cooking, I don’t have any formal culinary training, which means I’ve hit the same stumbling blocks that most of us encounter while trying to learn how to cook. My parents always took time to cook, and growing up, it’s just something I was around. When I went off to college I realized that there was a lot of basic cooking that I didn’t know how to do. (Spaghetti and salmon turns out to not be such a good combo.) I spent a decade experimenting and learning, and wrote the book based on my experiences, thinking about the book that I’d have wanted ten years ago.

To read more, please visit http://www.cookingforgeeks.com/faqs/

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