A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World -- Chef Cantu
A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World -- Chef Cantu
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A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World -- Chef Cantu
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Post #1 - December 31st, 2008, 10:23 amA Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World -- Wired Magazine interviews Chef CantuAsk America's foremost molecular gastronomist about the Willy Wonka comparisons, and Homaro Cantu will insist that he's just an average guy who likes cheeseburgers. But it's not cheeseburgers that have earned the Chicago chef fame: it's dishes prepared with industrial lasers, inkjet printers and liquid nitrogen.
Look beneath the technical sophistication, though, and Cantu's kitchen pyrotechnics are revealed as explorations of possible answers to a very simple question: What is food? And if the cuisine at Moto, his "molecular tasting lab," can be described as postmodern, Cantu himself has little time for gastro-academic posing. He's driven by a techno-utopian vision of decentralized food in which the world's ever-growing appetites are met by a radical transformation of agriculture itself — and it all begins in our kitchens.
"Make enough food for everyone. That's the end game," says Cantu. "And to get there, we have to start thinking a little crazier about what food is."
Wired.com talked to Cantu about his tastes and vision.
The interview can be read at the link above, pretty good read.
SSDDHe was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
Deepdish Pizza = Casserole
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Post #2 - December 31st, 2008, 10:53 amNot that it was particularly original even then, but I compared Grant Achatz (then at Trio) as Willie Wonka back in 2004.
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