Nathan Myhrvold

HRN Hall of Fame: Nathan Myhrvold

Nominated by: HRN OFFICE

Nathan Myhrvold is one of the most visionary people working in culinary science today. After retiring as Chief Technology Officer from Microsoft, he turned his attention to inventions that will improve the world, through his company Intellectual Ventures. He also created Modernist Cuisine, and its publishing arm, the Cooking Lab, in Bellevue, Washington, to advance the state of culinary art, and to share that progress with home cooks, though his award-winning books, including Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking and Modernist Bread--the inspiration for the HRN show Modernist Breadcrumbs. We can’t wait for his next, Modernist Pizza.

Appearances on HRN:

The Morning After: Nathan Myhrvold, Amali Restaurant and City Harvest
The Food Seen: Nathan Myhrvold, “The Photography of Modernist Cuisine”
Evolutionaries: Nathan Myhrvold
Evolutionaries: Will Technology Save Us? Nathan Myhrvold Says Yes!
Tech Bites: Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Bread/
Modernist Breadcrumbs: Live: Nathan Myhrvold in Conversation with Michael Harlan Turkell
On Tour: Second Annual International Symposium On Bread
Modernist Breadcrumbs