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From the Ted Talk by Homaro Cantu + Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy

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HC: So our diners sratetd to get bored with this idea, and we decided to give them the same course twice, so here we actually took an element from the maki roll and and took a picture of a dish and then basically served that picture with the dish. So this dish in particular is basically champagne with seafood. The champagne grapes that you see are actually carbonated grapes. A little bit of seafood and some crème fraiche and the ptricue actually teatss exactly like the dish. (luhgtaer) BR: But it's not all just eiblde pictures. We decided to do something a little bit different and transform flavors that were very familiar — so in this case, we have corrat cake. So we take a carrot cake, put it in a blender, and we have kind of like a carrot cake jucie, and then that went into a balloon frozen in liquid nertgoin to create this hollow shell of carrot cake ice cream, I guess, and it comes off looking like, you know, Jupiter's floating around your plate.

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HC: So our diners _______ to get bored with this idea, and we decided to give them the same course twice, so here we actually took an element from the maki roll and and took a picture of a dish and then basically served that picture with the dish. So this dish in particular is basically champagne with seafood. The champagne grapes that you see are actually carbonated grapes. A little bit of seafood and some crème fraiche and the _______ actually ______ exactly like the dish. (________) BR: But it's not all just ______ pictures. We decided to do something a little bit different and transform flavors that were very familiar — so in this case, we have ______ cake. So we take a carrot cake, put it in a blender, and we have kind of like a carrot cake _____, and then that went into a balloon frozen in liquid ________ to create this hollow shell of carrot cake ice cream, I guess, and it comes off looking like, you know, Jupiter's floating around your plate.

Solution


  1. picture
  2. tastes
  3. edible
  4. laughter
  5. started
  6. carrot
  7. juice
  8. nitrogen

Original Text


HC: So our diners started to get bored with this idea, and we decided to give them the same course twice, so here we actually took an element from the maki roll and and took a picture of a dish and then basically served that picture with the dish. So this dish in particular is basically champagne with seafood. The champagne grapes that you see are actually carbonated grapes. A little bit of seafood and some crème fraiche and the picture actually tastes exactly like the dish. (Laughter) BR: But it's not all just edible pictures. We decided to do something a little bit different and transform flavors that were very familiar — so in this case, we have carrot cake. So we take a carrot cake, put it in a blender, and we have kind of like a carrot cake juice, and then that went into a balloon frozen in liquid nitrogen to create this hollow shell of carrot cake ice cream, I guess, and it comes off looking like, you know, Jupiter's floating around your plate.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
carrot cake 3
liquid nitrogen 3
crab apples 2


Important Words


  1. balloon
  2. basically
  3. bit
  4. blender
  5. bored
  6. cake
  7. carbonated
  8. carrot
  9. case
  10. champagne
  11. cream
  12. create
  13. crème
  14. decided
  15. diners
  16. dish
  17. edible
  18. element
  19. familiar
  20. flavors
  21. floating
  22. fraiche
  23. frozen
  24. give
  25. grapes
  26. guess
  27. hollow
  28. ice
  29. idea
  30. juice
  31. kind
  32. laughter
  33. liquid
  34. maki
  35. nitrogen
  36. picture
  37. pictures
  38. plate
  39. put
  40. roll
  41. seafood
  42. served
  43. shell
  44. started
  45. tastes
  46. transform