'Modernist Cuisine' $500 Food Encyclopedia Now Available as $80 App

You may know Nathan Myhrvold as former CTO of Microsoft, but did you also know he is the author of the most formidable modern food encyclopedia of our era? Published in 2011, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking is a massive study in scientific techniques priced at $500 USD. Needless to say, it was very profitable as a book, and now it’s slightly more accessible, but just as challenging as an $80 app.