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We have Modernist Cuisine at Home, which is an abridged adaptation for the home kitchen, and I also like the illustrations and the autism, but the thing that bugs my wife is how completely it discards existing culinary practices. "Out with pots and pans, in with pressure cookers, sous vide and blowtorches!"
The Food Lab ended up a much better purchase, since it tries to optimize existing culinary practices, not replace them with the new ones Bolshevik-style.
Yeah... my wife also got me Modernist Cuisine At Home for my birthday, because she's a crazy person lol. That was the one I actually wanted because I felt like it would be more useful to me, but I can't say I'm displeased to have the full set as well. The publisher claims that the at home volume has new content not taken from the larger set, so we'll see i guess.
The Food Lab is definitely on my list of books to get someday. I really respect Kenji's food writing (it's consistently very high quality), so I definitely want to read his book.
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