Taste Test – A Tech Based Special at Gizmodo

Tech blog Gizmodo is doing a special feature this week focusing on the technology of food. It looks like it should be a good read. Up first is the story behind the birth of Alinea in Chicago and a too arty for it’s own good video of the restaurant. I have to be honest, I have about as much interest in Grant Achatz and Alinea as I do in whatever new GMO soy and HFCS concoction McDonald’s is marketing this month. Any chef whose sole desire in life is to arrange micro greens with tweezers prior to sending the food to the table may be a visionary genius, but doesn’t float my boat. Anyway, here’s what is going to be featured this week.

Here’s just some of what’s to come:
• Guest editor Nick Kokonas—who founded Alinea in Chicago with chef Grant Achatz—will introduce us to the innovative minds they recruited to solve the trickiest problems of modern cuisine (like how to build a “bacon bow”)
• Wylie Dufresne will walk you through his kitchen in New York, showing off some of his most intense, and perhaps dangerous, gear
• Food Network’s geek-in-chief Alton Brown discusses topics ranging from the culinary innovations that changed human history to home hacks that look silly but save time and money
• Wired’s Mark McClusky will tell us how to cook with magnets
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch food reporter Georgina Gustin will set us straight on what is (and isn’t) evil about modern food production

And lets be truthful here, soon bacon bows and pillows of lavender air will seem as sadly dated as mango coulis under blackened snapper does now.

~KT