TABLE 2.1 Variations of Density and Viscosity as a Function of
Temperature 73 TABLE 2.2 Simple Dispersed Systems 77 TABLE 2.3 Selected Gelling Compounds 100 TABLE 2.4 Random Dispersion with Two Objects of Various Dimensions 102 TABLE 2.5 Inclusion with Two Objects of Various Dimensions 106 TABLE 2.6 Superposition of Two Objects of Various Dimensions 108 TABLE 2.7 Interpenetration of Two Objects of Various Dimensions 110 TABLE 6.1 How Should an Artist Go About Being an Artist? 187
FIGURES
The birth of note-by-note Molecules 18
cooking 6 Empty plate 38 Paraethylphenol crystals 7 Polyhedrons 41 Natural 12 Platonic solids 41 Artifical 13 Topological equivalence 48 XII + TA B L E S , F I G U R E S , A N D C O L O R P L AT E S
Pectins 61 Friedrich Wöhler 122
Marie-Antoine Carême 65 Louis Pasteur 128 Hookean solid 67 Amino acids 130 Crystalline solid 70 Monosodium glutamate 131 A triglyceride 71 Eugène-Melchior Péligot 135 A dispersed system 79 Monosaccharides 137 A new note-by-note Vanillin 153 composition 85 Olfaction 158 Another new note-by-note Vegetable matter in food composition 86 additives 175 Food additives 90 Cochineal insect 176 Sapid compounds 120
COLOR PLATES
1 Bubble Cocktail 12 Red Amuse-Bouche
2 Bouchée Ultra 13 Note-by-Note No. 1 3 Bouchée Tart 14 Emulsion of September 20 4 Bouchée Nuage 15 Jambonnette 5 Le Cordon Bleu 16 Orange Balls of Fire 6 Note-by-Yolk 17 Amylopectin Tarts 7 Ardoise This 18 Chicken Pearls 8 IASG/Cordon Bleu Dinner 19 Orange Conglomèle 9 Sp“ready” to M“eat” 20 Fibré 10 Mousse-Note “Babybel” 11 Strawberry and Lemon Tart Revisited COOKING NOTE-BY-NOTE