Word: kurtis
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...until he asked himself, Why do green beans have to be boiled in salted water? "All the books said it was a must, but I couldn't figure out why," says Blumenthal. With no cooking mentors to rely on, he cold-called Oxford University molecular-gastronomy pioneer Nicholas Kurti, only to learn that Kurti had died in 1998. So Blumenthal got the list of participants at Kurti's annual food-science conference and rang Peter Barham, a physicist at the University of Bristol. "The answer is that green beans don't need salted water," says Barham. "Heston had figured this...
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