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Modernist Cuisine is former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold's six-volume (2,438-page!) scientific cookbook opus that’s been hailed by the food-obsessed as the greatest thing since sliced bread—or at least Escoffier.

But if you're reading this, you already know that. Everyone else has abandoned us, unfooled by the exclamation mark in my headline. Whatever with those people. Hi, friend!

First, did you know that the M.C. team is making a new cookbook designed to bring all the extreme geekery into your very own kitchen? It's true! And it looks neato: "Equipment once available only to professional chefs or scientists is now being manufactured for the home kitchen; we encourage you to try it. But we also show you how to get by without fancy appliances, such as how to cook fish sous vide in your kitchen sink and how to cook steak in a picnic cooler."

Second! If you have wads of cash falling out of your pockets and win the e-Bay auction, you can experience the full 30-course, cooked-by-the-amazing-team Modernist Cuisine Feast. They say it's the first and only open to the (rich, lucky) public dinner they'll ever do. Twenty-five seats are available, the auction closes in eight hours, and proceeds will divided among seven great charities, so you don't have to feel so bad about how rich and lucky you are. Here's the auction and full information.