FOR USE WITH AP LIFESTYLES. A MARCH 23, 2011 PHOTO
This Wednesday, March 23, 2011 photo shows a mushroom omelet, one of the dishes from "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking," by Nathan Myhrvold, at the Institute for Culinary Education in New York. The work traces the development of cooking from prehistoric spit-roasted meat and early agriculture to the seemingly magical foods of the modernists _ dishes that change temperature as you bite into them, gels that transform liquids into solids, edible dirt _ and then tells you how they're made. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)