Monday, July 23, 2007
Gossip Molecular gastronomist researches antique equipment?
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 3:01 PM
You never know where you're going to run into a good chef indulging bad taste. A few years ago, for example, I saw a well known Hispanic chef at the window of a Taco Bell. (Hey, I was just driving by!) I've seen another buying his restaurant's bread at Publix. I know a particularly brilliant chef who lived for years on Domino's pizza.
But, oh no, not this! I caught Richard Blais of Element ordering one of those blended coffee drinks at Starbucks last Sunday. Blais is our city's culinary alchemist, practitioner of so-called molecular gastronomy. As such, he changes the forms and textures of food, often intensely distilling flavors. Hmmm. Now that I think of it, those Starbucks drinks taste like cake thrown in a blender — a primitive kind of molecular gastronomy. Maybe Blais was just slumming or researching antique equipment.
If you haven't already, check out Food Editor Besha Rodell's review of Element here.
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Cliff: I thought this post was gonna be about the Osterizer in the picture, which looks a lot like the one my Mom had when I was a teenager. My friend X and I would get stoned after we got home from school and make orange crush out of concentrate and ice in the Osterizer. When Mom told me we needed to stop putting ice in the Osterizer, it became the subject of twisted operatic song composed by my friend and me: "Senor, why you no make-ah the o-o-range crush? Sen-o-o-o-o-o-rrrr, why you no make-ah the o-o-range crush?" "Because it'll break the Osterizer, 'cause it'll break the osterizer, 'cause it'll break the Osterizer .... and Idon'twanttodothat." Dancing was involved. Pretty catchy, huh?
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