Amongst all the new techniques and knowledge beeing passed back
and forward between the drinks and culinary world, it is often
the most basic questions that can be missed. For instance "how
do you define cooking?" or "how do you define being a cocktail
bartender or, to coin a popular term, a mixologist" These basic
questions often supply the best guidelines from which you can
then build and grow as a bartender or chef but keeping these
guidelines in your mind. In the above lecture we are treated to
the combination of Harold McGee and Dave Arnold, teaming up to
answer both basic and advanced questions and demonstrate mdoern
techniques. Perhaps most interestingly they also demonstrate and
give examples of how cooking has played an essential role
throughout humans history and may have actually contributed to
our evolution. Though we have only relatively recently started
using gelatins and clarifications in the drinks world, there is
evidence that the techniques have been used since the middle
ages.