Modernist Cuisine at Home

Call me crazy or living under a rock..but i was looking at amazon.com... Obviously i have seen all volumes of MC but is the book "MCAH" just the kitchen manual or what information is in that in reference to the 6 Volumes of MC

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Jack_Mayer_85396

@Dquintana - Its a different book. Much more geared to the home cook. I received a copy for Christmas and love it! It makes extensive use of a pressure cooker among other things. I'm sure others here have it and can comment as well. I also found an eGullet thread for "Cooking with Modernist Cuisine at Home," check it out ... Hope this helps

Tim_Sutherland_52834

I have both sets. MC@H is aimed at the home user and the recipes use equipment and ingredients that a "modernist" home cook would have or could get access to. Being a much smaller body of work it does not go into the great detail that MC does on the why and how.

MC@H references MC (ie tells you where to look to get more information) but you can easily use MC@H as a standalone book. Like its big brother MC@H has a kitchen recipe book printed on water proof paper.

Matthew_Snyder_68770

I think of MC as a sort of doctoral level course on cooking and food science. Prior to that - in the context of a cookbook, as opposed to not a mostly abstract text like, say, McGee - I think the most useful volume was probably The Fat Duck Cookbook.