Update on Update on Nathan Myrhvold and his problems

Update:

On closer inspection, there is an I missing from the address that bounced back. I'm sorry I did not check further before posting the post below. If the mistake is mine, I regret the error. If memory serves, however, I cut and pasted the email link from the MC "To err is human" post. If the error originated with me, I apologize to the MC team; if the typo was in their link, I apologize to my readers for not checking more carefully. 

The Cod mentioned the thing where there are a lot of problems with Modernist Cuisine the other day. Charging your beta testers a ton of money to debug your product is certainly an innovative cross-pollenation of the software and publishing industry, and The Cod wanted to be a part. Having pointed out a glaring problem with the book, namely the title, long ago, we thought it would only be courteous to share this info. After all Myrhvold had invited us to: If you spot a mis­take in your copy that isn’t already men­tioned here, please send it in."

On May first, I sent the following email:

 

I am taking you up on your offer that "if you spot a mis­take in your copy that isn’t already men­tioned here, please send it in." I don't own a copy, but I did notice an error in the title. Your book is concerned with avant-garde techniques popularized by the likes of Ferran Adria and Grant Achatz over the last decade or so. But the title of your book is "Modernist" Cuisine. Given the way this word is used in English, (see OED s.v.  Modernist, Modernism, and Modern) your title is misleading and confusing. You might consider "Contemporary Cuisine," or perhaps "Avant-Garde Cuisine," or maybe "21st Century Cuisine." Good luck with your edits -- it sounds like a very ambitious project! Hope this suggestion helps. Cheers, JBF, AKA The Gurgling Cod

I got this response:

 

 

 

from Mail Delivery Subsystem mailer-daemon@googlemail.com to fesser@gmail.com date Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:26 PM subject Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

May 4 (6 days ago)

 

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

    info@modernistcusine.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 451 451 Try again later (state 14).

 

Yep, the email to report errors does not work. What line of work was this guy in before he started writing cookbooks? 

Comments

[Frolic (aka Todd Price)]

Accidentally left this comment on an old post you have linked above. Meant to put it here.

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I haven't seen the book, never eaten an all-out molecular meal (but I do use Microsoft webmail--piece of shit), so my qualifications in this matter are minimal.

From all I've read, much of this molecular cooking sounds like the "Futurist Cookbook." Perhaps modern is apt, but the proponents don't realize how incredible passé it all is.

I'm sure you've seen the talk on eGullet and elsewhere that says the art of cooking (a debatable concept) was stuck in a classical phase and is just now entering modernism, as if these aesthetic movements are part of an evolutionary process divorced from historic context. What bunk.

--Todd Price

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