1. Modernist Cuisine: From the Nouvelle Cuisine to the High-Tech Restaurant

2. the High-Tech Restaurant The emergence of the Modernist cooking movement in its proper context, as just the latest in a series of transformational shifts in the culinary arts. This view through like the scientists eyes debunks many long- held misconceptions about traditional ways of cooking. A new revolution is underway in the art of cooking. Just as Nouvelle cuisine upended centuries of traditions and revealed to a delighted world the joys of innovating in the kitchen, Modernist cuisine has in recent years blown through the boundaries of the culinary arts. 3. Cooking in modern ovens offers the first complete guide to cooking in combi ovens and water-vapor ovens is to have greater control over two crucial variables heat and humidity that separate success from failure in cooking, the same in Cooking Sous Vide, technique in which food is vacuum-packed in bags then cooked in a water bath or a water-vapor oven. Technology + Technique = Quality Results Every cook should read to understand the two most fundamental ingredients of all cooking: heat and water. In the kitchen, we use these every day, in every dish. Yet even the most experienced cooks find themselves occasionally frustrated or bewildered by the unexpected ways in which heat moves into and through foods, and by the genuinely odd chemical and physical properties of water. heat and water 4. The iPad menu for restaurants The restaurant iPad menu can replace your restaurant's paper menu and can also be a great addition to your eMenu system. will also feature pictures of your dishes, detailed descriptions about them, including ingredients and calorie intake, as well as additional formation about your business. The iPad menu for restaurants is ideal for tourists as it allows customers to change the language of the menu to any language they desire. 5. The next step. the future? IS NOW! E-Table Systems Tables with eMenu provides all this as an interactive touch screen menu, visualized on a networked LCD screen located on table side or bar (with quality photographs and comprehensive descriptions of each item, including additional useful information such as calorie count). Optional on-screen ordering; Multi-language selection; Calling the servers, requesting the bill; Communicating with other customers via the networked screen; Interactive games to entertain customers; and Music and Video selection. 6. Okay, Whats happen with the kitchen? the service is automatized but if this is a High-Tech Restaurant. . . Specialized equipment that has moved from scientific laboratories to professional kitchens. Centrifuges, freeze dryers, homogenizers, rotary evaporators, vacuum filters, and many others is used such equipment to develop innovative dishes at the modern (not only kitchen, yet) Cooking Lab. 7. High-Tech Kitchen Tools ...for [Top] Chefs ? The premise is simple and very similar to your trusty inkjet printer. Instead of ink cartridges, the machine uses special food canisters filled with different raw ingredients. 3D Food Printer In modern ways and for preparing Modernist creations that go well beyond what classical techniques can produce: Noodles made of gel, eggless mayonnaise Then, you punch in the sort of food you want the printer to make from them, and it squirts them into desired layers. The process is fully customizable: You can stuff the canisters with virtually any combination of ingredients or its mixes. Instead of having to make food from various ingredients according to a recipe, a 3D food printer will be like a Microwave that produces a finished meal from scratch, or rather from a template. 8. All robots are equipped with sensors which allow them to move freely without bumping into anything or anyone. And now WHAT?. . . What happens in a robot-operated restaurant that makes it so special? (in a NO WAITERS High-Tech restaurant) There are dumpling-making robots, noodle experts and even robot chefs that get the foods right every time. Once the meals are ready, robot waiters bring guest their orders, following a set of tracks through the restaurant. Fa-Men Restaurant Fa-Men sits on the second floor of a nondescript, slightly aging shopping arcade (Ameyoko 2!) approximately 15 minutes and a one subway transfer out from JR Nagoya station. The restaurant FA-men (pronounced Fu-a-men) takes its name from the phrase Fully Automated raMEN. Reuters says the robots are serving 80 bowls of tasty ramen soup on a busy day. It takes the robots about 1 minute 40 seconds to cook a bowl that cost the equivalent of 7 US dollars. Here's the address & phone # to Ramen Noodles in Nagoya: Business hours: 11:3015:30 17:0020:00 Closed:(Wednesdays) TEL: 052-253-6532 Address: 3-14-43 22F 2nd Ameyoko Bldg 2nd Fl, 3-14-43 Osu, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture