Modernist Cusine

Infusions are all around us. From tea and coffee to flavored vinegars and oils, and even many traditional soda pops, infusions are a part of our daily lives.

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black.