Cognitive Cooking With Chef Watson: Recipes for Innovation from IBM & the Institute of Culinary Education

The recipes are mostly terrible, but the stories are phenomenal. You'll probably only want to try out one or two recipes, but the stories of Watson that go along with the recipes make this purchase entirely worthwhile.

I think overall the book is great. The recipes are really interesting, the premise of the book is very clever, and I enjoyed reading through it. I'm really glad I bought it. The downside: most of the recipes require expensive equipment (e.g. sous vide) or ingredients that I don't have easy access to. It also requires some advanced techniques and some serious time investment (hours/days). This book was way out of my league. I do a ton of cooking, almost exclusively from scratch, and not just easy things like meatloaf. Still there were only a couple recipes I could consider attempting. The description: "You don't have to be a culinary genius to be a great cook" is pretty misleading. It's true that you can be a great cook without culinary genius, but this book requires you to be a culinary expert. Still enjoyed reading it though.

Sold out day 1 at Amazon. This is a high quality printed cookbook that could have sold for double the price. Most unconventional recipes.Price of ingredients is not a consideration for Chef Watson. Next thing I know IBM will be getting Watson a job as adjunct professor for online education. CTU Online would probably experiment with that.

Okay so first and foremost let's clarify, as a conversation piece and advancement of computer's understanding of intangible human experiences, this is fantastic. However, as a cookbook this is rubbish. It falls victim to the standard cookbook syndrome, only contains recipes that you may oogle on the menu of a single Michelin star restaurant but won't actually order because there is always one item that is better, more appealing, where your mouth waters in a Pavlovian fashion.Albeit, this cookbook never insinuates it is a simple 5-ingredient book, it is just too far-fetched from home cooking. 80% of the ingredients are moderately reasonable items to stock your pantry with, but the remaining 20% are the ingredients you know you will never ever use again and have to track down in the far depths of the internet and local markets.Overall, how this book was created is far more fascinating than any of the contents as all sense of practicality was thrown out the window but I seriously recommend this if you are purchasing it for the sake of the story behind it and as a conversation starter. If you want a good cookbook for the recipes and context of why everything in the recipes make sense, just buy the ATK book.Just to give a bit on context as everything is relative, I am not a formally trained chef/cook but I am certainly quite comfortable in the kitchen (cooking, baking, coffees, and cocktails) even with larger and more elaborate meals.

This is a great book if you like experimenting in the kitchen. Very technical, but great recipes.

Disappointed. The computer suggested flavor combinations and a human chef designed the recipe. You would do better with the Flavor Bible

This is a fun cookbook, but the recipes are a little fancy for my tastes. Looking forward to playing around with some of the flavor combination, though.

only have made a few of the items but they have all been great, especially the cobbler.

Innovative book. Great cooking ideas. Combinations that I did not think of - and that was the idea... ;-)

Libro molto particolare; indubbiamente le ricette utilizzano ingredienti non sempre a portata di mano ma con internet è oramai possibile procurarsi di tutto in breve tempo. Non è certo un testo in cui cercare l'ispirazione per una cena improvvisata con gli amici ma contiene una mole eccezionale di informazioni tecniche, accostamenti di sapori, aromi da scoprire.

This book has many practical recipes for those who want to check them in the kitchen. I'd say it's just a cookbook. It has good photos but for me it's just a book, not captivated my heart. It has food recipes from several countries.

I've only made one recipe so far and it turned out brilliantly. After going through the book, and learning how the chefs created the recipes, I feel it's important to feel comfortable taking liberties yourself.Not all recipes look great, but most seem very interesting. I'll be keen to try out more over time.Be warned that a lot of the recipes require substantial preparation time (e.g. leave over night)Plus, I'M COOKING STUFF INVENTED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!

Der Kauf war ein Volltreffer. Habe schon einige Rezepte nachgekocht. alles schlüssig erklärt, Zutaten sind hier gut erhältlich, tolle Resultate und "einfach anders" als alles Bisherige. Englische Sprachkenntnisse sind unerlässlich. Übersetzungssoftware aber allgegenwärtig zugänglich mittlerweile. Sprachkurs zum Lesen Englischer Speisekarten gibt es somit gratis dazu.