Paul Rollo a place where i put things

Composing dinner

I have proposed a new method called note-by-note cooking, which is like playing the piano - assembling dishes note by note, using compounds like sucrose, salt, ethanol, tartaric acid. A chef made the first note-by-note dish in Hong Kong this year without plant tissue or meat, using reverse osmosis and fractionation to create compounds, building the dish in layers to include firmness, hardness, softness, stickiness, pungency and flavour. The political idea behind it is that if we want to get a better environment we have to help the farmers to behave more correctly, and in order to do that they have to get richer by adding value. So instead of growing and selling carrots, they need to create compounds from them.

via Hervé This: Why we need to eat technology - opinion - 19 January 2010 - New Scientist.