Some of you may recall my earlier post on Nathan Myrhvold, one of the great renaissance men geniuses of our age. I follow that here with a tip to check out his TED talk on what he’s been up to of late. His topics range from animal photography of spawning whales to digging up dinosaurs to cooking up some world-class barbecue. (As an aside, the first few minutes on penguins is scatologically hilarious).
Mr. Myrhvold is back in the news for his new $500 cookbook that looks absolutely fantastic. As one of my friends puts it, “It’s exactly the kind of cookbook you’d expect the CTO of Microsoft to write.” The cookbook stems from a long-running interest in cooking, including taking a leave of absence from Microsoft to go to chef school if France. In his TED talk, he shows a picture of the cooker he’s engineered that he claims is more complicated than the nuclear reactor he designed.
If the cookbook is $500, I wonder what the oven goes for? And, is there anyone other than Myrhvold that can repair it?