DR. NATHAN MYHRVOLD is chief executive officer and a founder of Intellectual Ventures. Before founding his invention company, Myhrvold was the first chief technology officer at Microsoft. He left Microsoft in 1999 to pursue several interests, including a lifelong interest in cooking and food science. Myhrvold competed on a team that won first place in several categories at the 1991 World Championship of Barbecue, including first prize in the special pasta category for a recipe that Myhrvold developed on the day of the contest.

After working for two years as a stagier at Seattle's top French restaurant, Rover's, Myhrvold completed culinary training with renowned chef Anne Willan at the Ecole De La Varenne. In addition, he has worked as Chief Gastronomic Officer for Zagat Survey, publisher of the popular Zagat restaurant guidebooks. Through his many visits to the world's top restaurants, Myhrvold has become personally acquainted with many of the leading modernist chefs and the science-inspired cooking techniques they have pioneered.

Myhrvold's formal education includes degrees in mathematics, geophysics, and space physics from UCLA, and Ph.D.s in mathematical economics and theoretical physics from Princeton University. In his postdoctoral work at Cambridge University, Myhrvold worked on quantum theories of gravity with the renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking.

CHRIS YOUNG opened the experimental kitchen at The Fat Duck and worked under world-famous chef Heston Blumenthal to oversee development of his most innovative dishes. With degrees in mathematics and biochemistry from the University of Washington, Young oversees original experiments and recipe development for The Cooking Lab.

MAXIME BILET was educated in the humanities at Skidmore College and graduated with highest honors from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York. Before joining the culinary team at The Cooking Lab, Bilet completed stages at Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar, The Fat Duck, and Auberge de l'Ile in London.

《現代主義烹飪：美食的藝術與科學》（Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking），這本書將顛覆大眾對廚房的理解，用美輪美奐的圖片帶領您進入現代攝影技術下的饕餮世界。

高科技廚房烹製齣的美食一定是不一般的，請全世界的人們都來品嘗貌似不太現實。不過，齣版一套配有烹飪攝影的精美食譜，讓遠在韆裏之外的人們也能欣賞到這些曼妙的佳肴，這還是可行。於是，梅爾沃德團隊的大作《現代主義烹飪：美食的藝術與科學》（Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking）在一番努力後於今年3月齣爐瞭。《現代主義烹飪》全套五冊，厚達2438頁，包括從近15萬幅照片中精選齣來的3216張美圖與超過1500種美食的菜譜，其中約380種是有實例的，有興趣的話，你可以依樣畫葫蘆。

作者納森•梅爾沃德（Nathan Myhrvold）曾任微軟副總裁兼首席技術官，他帶領一個由頂級廚師、化學傢和物理學傢組成的團隊，曆時三年創作齣這本令人大開眼界的現代美食主義圖書。這本書充分展現烹飪藝術的創造力，並且以圖文並茂的方式引導著你一步一步的來實現它們。通過三韆多幅精美的原創照片和圖錶，讓烹飪藝術的科學與技術變得鮮活起來，讓食物香濃細膩的口感通過令人驚艷的光影展現在您麵前。令人驚嘆的攝影新技術為您展示齣食物的內部狀況：您可以看到烹調的全過程，小至肉類縴維的微觀變化，大到整個鍋的橫斷麵。讀過這本書之後，對烹飪和飲食的看法將會打開一個全新的視角。全書一套6本。