The Photography of Modernist Cuisine

Wow. The photos are breathtaking. The book itself is huge, but we plan to showcase it on the wall with a sturdy shelf like a piece of art. So many gorgeous photos.

Its huge and so cool. I got it for a great deal on Amazon!

I'm a chef with a degree in culinary arts and I'm currently studying food photography, a serious challenge even for accomplished photographers of other subjects. I never would have thought of food or kitchen equipment as presented in this book, and I was never before exposed to many of the photo techniques (such as micro-photography inside foods, or kitchen equipment cut in half to expose inner workings). It's huge (13-1/2" x 17"), and heavy (about 12 lbs.). Some images are disappointingly split across two pages, as this big book will not lie flat. Definitely an eye-opener into physical aspects of meat, fruit, veggies and hardware most of us never thought about. An attention-getter on my coffee table and discussion-starter when other chefs or foodies visit. This is a specialized book not for everybody, like "NOMA, Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine" by Rene Redzepi, which I also bought, but I'm intrigued - maybe"excited" - by modernist cuisine and the ingenious people seeking alternatives to future world-wide food issues.

So... if you are looking for recipes or more of the Modernist Cuisine techniques, look elsewhere. This is a photography book - for food.That said, it is an AMAZING photography book for food. My only fault would be that often the pictures are lessened in impact by having to go across the page divide. I would have much rather seen them confined to a single large page. And double the photos. (It also ruins the ability to carve up the book if you have wall space you'd like covered! Sacrilege I know, but consider that $90 is cheap to create some amazing wall art)And I do mean large - like any good photography book, this thing is HUGE. Like, no bookshelf storage for this one... it dwarfs even the MC cookbooks in their case, and makes the Fat Duck large cookbook look tiny. However, it'll likely fit in well if you have other large art books.So, a reduce a star only because they made the choice of crossing pages with the photos, and I frankly think it ends up detracting from many of the pictures, especially since the boo is big enough, you can't get a good flat lay from the spine. Other than that, this is an amazingly well shot book, and maintains the ultra high quality of Nathan's printing efforts.

I am a photographer and I was really curious about how they took the images from the other books, this book has a chapter with all the techniques they used in the other books which is the reason why I bought it, and the rest of the book is just big image prints that you could use for inspiration if you are a food photographer.Keep in mind that this book is larger than the other books and weighs a lot

This is a beautiful, unique book and a photographic tour de force of the fundamentals of good food and the underlying mechanisms of food preparation. I have never seen a book quite like it related to cooking and foodstuffs. It is both a great photography book and an excellent book about cuisine. This is an excellent gift for the cook, the cameraman, the artist and the engineer.

My uncle and aunt loved it!

I was so anxious to see this. It was a christmas present to myself. It's a HUGE and HEAVY book. I have to admit I didn't realize how large and heavy it is.But if the book was physically smaller and had glossy paper, I think it would have been better. The reproduction looks like it was just too big. I know he had good camera and lighting gear. But many of the photos seem noisy/grainy and some are soft.Probably the best part of the book, is at the end where he describes the photographic techniques involved.It's not dreadful, just not as good as it should have been for the price.

Un géant livre contenant des photos de très haute résolution. Ils expliquent en détail des techniques utilisées pour obtenir des résultats surréalistes.

Really outstanding technical food photos and vague hints on how to achieve them including photoshop layers, actually even better than Modernist Cuisine which it is written about

The best photo cooking book in the world. The best photo cooking book in the world.The best photo cooking book in the world.

The format, the paper and of course, the amazing photos!

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