Looks like an awesome book (along with the others recommended on this site). Unusual for scientificly minded cookbooks to be affordable - the only other ones I know of are way out of my price range: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Fat-Duck-Cookbook/dp/0747583692 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cookin... (I notice the author of this book, Nathan Myhrvold's also mentioned in cooking for geeks)