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Culinary Math: Understanding Portions at World’s Best Restaurants

Explore the intriguing world of culinary math through the specialties of renowned chefs like René Redzepi from Noma in Copenhagen, Marc Lepine from Atelier in Ottawa, Grant Achatz from Alinea in Chicago, and Grant Van Gameren from The Black Hoof in Toronto. Discover how they calculate ingredient portions for unique dishes such as Blueberry and Spruce Sorbet and Cloud of Carrot and Tangerine Concentrate. This engaging exploration combines food with math, showcasing how precision is essential in gourmet cuisine.

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Culinary Math: Understanding Portions at World’s Best Restaurants

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  1. Fractions and Food The World’s Greatest Restaurants

  2. Noma Rene Redzepi Copenhagen, Denmark

  3. The Restaurant

  4. Blueberry and Spruce Sorbet • Redzepi heads to the store to buy ingredients for dinner. This evening, he expects about 16 people to order his blueberry and spruce sorbet. If Redzepi has the ingredients for the spruce ice cream already and only needs to buy ingredients for the blueberry sorbet, how many total cups of ingredients will he need to buy for dinner?

  5. Blueberry and Spruce Sorbet • An egg yolk is about 2 of a cup 5 • If Redzepi has 48 eggs, how many portions of spruce ice cream can he make?

  6. Atelier Marc Lepine Ottawa, Ontario

  7. The Restaurant

  8. Cloud of Carrot and Tangerine Concentrate • In his refrigerator, Lepine has a total of 35 2 cups of 3 ingredients. • If he takes out enough carrots and tangerine juice to make 3 portions of “Cloud of Carrot and Tangerine Concentrate”, how many cups of ingredients will be left in the fridge?

  9. Alinea Grant Achatz Chicago, USA

  10. The Restaurant

  11. Hot Potato Cold Potato • There are 96 people dining in Alinea this evening. • 1 of these diners are lactose intolerant, which 3 means they can’t eat or drink diary products (milk, cream, cheese, butter, etc.). Achatz determines that he can still make a decent dish if he just leaves out these ingredients. He heads to the store. How many total cups of ingredients will he need to buy for the lactose intolerant people in the crowd?

  12. The Black Hoof Grant VanGameren Toronto, Canada

  13. The Restaurant

  14. Tongue on Brioche • In order to impress his special lady, VanGameren is making a picnic lunch to bring to the park. He has a picnic basket that can hold 50 2 cups of food. 3 • If he’s bringing the brioche and the pickles in a separate container, how many portions of tongue can he fit in the basket?

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