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Steve Abrams, the director of IBM's Watson Life research program, told Quartz that Watson scanned publicly available data sources to build up a vast library of information on recipes, the chemical compounds in food, and common pairings. (For any budding gastronomers out there, Abrams said Wikia was a surprisingly useful source.) Knowledge that might've taken a lifetime for a Michelin-starred chef to attain can now be accessed instantly from your tablet.
The Watson team has actually published a cookbook of its AI-inspired dishes in partnership with the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), which launches April 14. While Quartz has not been able to test out Watson's esoteric parings yet, here are some that stood out:
- Belgian bacon pudding, a desert containing dried porcini mushrooms
- Vietnamese apple kebab, with the vaunted mushroom-and-strawberry pairing
- Portuguese lobster roll, with appetizing "saffron fluid gel"
- Hoof-n-Honey ale, with veal stock
- Thai-Jewish chicken, with potato latkes and rice balls
- The shrimp cocktail, which is a beverage with actual shrimp in it
- Kenyan Brussels spouts, with cardamom
It sounds like another sort of molecular gastronomy. Have any Soylentils eaten recipes like that? Does it work?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Paradise Pete on Tuesday April 14 2015, @10:37AM
How about roasted maggots? Have you tried those? It's a common dish in rural Thailand. I couldn't bring myself to try it.
By the way, the same girl that tried to get me to eat those had recently discovered some western foods. She loved mayonnaise. I told her she could make it herself, and showed her a youtube video. Her first reaction: "Oh, that's easy!" Then a pause... "Wait, you don't cook the egg?! You farangs are crazy!!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @03:17PM
Posting AC because I'm at work, but I've never had maggots. I've had spider, ants, and grasshoppers though, but that's been many years. I did eat a mealworm on a bet once while fishing, that was kind of gross, but that wasn't exactly cuisine.
I don't really like mayo much, but I find the idea of being repulsed by raw egg being in something kind of funny. I like them that way. To each their own I suppose.
-dyingtolive
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday April 14 2015, @06:35PM
It didn't sound as if she were repulsed, it sounded as if she considered it unsafe. Not an unreasonable reaction it the egg wasn't VERY clean on the outside. (Also, IIUC, uncooked eggs can carry salmonella even if they have been externally cleansed.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @09:06PM
Perhaps I misunderstood then.
And yeah, I'm aware of the health risks. I don't do it on a daily basis, but I just don't shirk from an undercooked breakfast egg, raw cookie dough, or the occasional egg in a dark beer.
-dyingtolive
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Paradise Pete on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:23AM
Yes, I believe it was the safety issue. I didn't ask, but later when I said "come on, you eat maggots" she said, "yes, but we cook them first," thoroughly putting me in my place :-)
She loved them, by the way. When the cart passed by the house she'd run outside to get some.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday April 14 2015, @06:50PM
Food is weird, there was a local tabloid story about American visitors starting to cry when confronted with pâté, some of them thought it was made out of children lol :D (do they also think Frosted Flakes are made out of tigers?). I'm sure it was exaggerated for comedic effect but it's still funny.
I'm quite squeamish however I've eaten raw eggs right out of their shell and that's no problem at all. By the way raw egg on rice (whip it in with the chopsticks) is a Japanese thing as far as I know (never tried it yet).
Grass jelly drinks can be nice or …interesting… when canned so I found this page/picture of text [noapologiespress.com] hilarious. Completely get their take on it but it's far better than frogs and snails or raw oysters :)
I've “swallowed” my fair share of living flying flies including one rather large one due to bad luck (don't talk and bicycle? Stay away from “suicidal” flies? I know why frogs don't need to chew or kill, it died almost instantly in my stomach after hitting the back of my throat and ricocheting down), at least it wasn't a wasp or bumblebee :3
Grass jelly drink is no worse.
P.S. Prawn crackers++
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