{"id":893,"date":"2008-10-15T03:54:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T08:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=893"},"modified":"2008-10-15T03:54:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T08:54:19","slug":"atomic-molecular-and-optical-gastronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/893","title":{"rendered":"Atomic, Molecular and Optical \u2026 Gastronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2201626\/pagenum\/all\/\">Eat Your Spherified Vegetables!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an effort to expand his palate, I&#8217;ve followed the standard parenting guidelines without much luck: I keep putting veggies on his plate, even if he won&#8217;t eat them; I eat lots of them myself; and I regularly cook with him. I&#8217;ve even tried the morally questionable practice of sneaking veggies into his favorite dishes (a la Jessica Seinfeld). The Critic\u2014as I like to call him\u2014was not so easily fooled: He quickly detected a quarter cup of squash in his salmon cakes the other night and declared them strange. Frustrated but not yet willing to give up, I enlisted the help of an unlikely accomplice: El Bulli chef Ferran Adria. Adria is perhaps the most famous chef in the world, known as a leader in the field of &#8220;molecular gastronomy&#8221;\u2014 a kind of kitchen alchemy that transforms prime ingredients into surreal concoctions using high-tech tools and commercial food additives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eat Your Spherified Vegetables! In an effort to expand his palate, I&#8217;ve followed the standard parenting guidelines without much luck: I keep putting veggies on his plate, even if he won&#8217;t eat them; I eat lots of them myself; and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-molecular-gastronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}