Kitchen Mysteries
Columbia University Press, New York, New York, 2007
Description
An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy—or, the scientific investigation of culinary practice—Hervé This is known for his groundbreaking research on the chemistry and physics behind everyday cooking. In Kitchen Mysteries, This answers fundamental questions such as what causes vegetables to change color when cooked and how to keep a soufflé from falling. He illuminates abstract concepts with practical advice and concrete examples so that cooks of every stripe can thoroughly comprehend the scientific principles of food.
In terms of the book’s design, the decision was made to visually reference kitchenware and chemistry-lab iconography throughout the interior, jacket and case.
Juror Notes
Lovingly handled typography: it captures the confluence of taste and science.
Wonderful ligatures, footnotes and glossary.
Credits
- Design firm
- Columbia University Press
- Creative direction
- Linda Secondari
- Art director
- Vin Dang
- Designer
- Vin Dang
- Jacket designers
- Vin Dang, Heng Wee Tan
- Photographer
- Heng Wee Tan
- Production director
- Jennifer Jerome
- Production coordinator
- Jessica Schwarz
- Author
- Hervé This
- Editor
- Juree Sondker
- Trim size
- 6 x 8 inches
- Pages
- 232
- Quantity printed
- 15,000
- Compositor
- Vin Dang
- Typefaces
- Ferdinand (custom-designed by Isaac Tobin), Scala Pro
- Printer
- Thomson-Shore
- Jacket printer
- Coral Graphics
- Papers
- Polypropylene film, 80 lb., matte (cover); Nature’s Natural, 440 ppi, 50 lb. (text)
- Binder
- Thomson-Shore
- Binding
- Smyth sewn
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press