Chaos in the Kitchen = Symmetry at the Table

The Aspen Center for Physics is pleased to announce the publication of a cookbook, "Chaos in the Kitchen = Symmetry at the Table", an entertainment, both Epicurean and exotic. There are recipes by Nobel Laureates, longtime Aspen residents and physics' spouses, who have cooked using unfamiliar equipment in kitchens all over the world.

This book has been compiled by two physics/wife volunteers during the last three years and includes reminiscences about Aspen in the 1950s when the Center had its birth, as well as serious underlying cooking chemistry by noted author and physicist, Harold McGee; a prehistoric tuna fish sandwich assembled by Marcia Southwick, poet and wife of Nobelist Murray Gell-Mann. The recipes come from all parts of the world and are readily cookable using kitchen equipment usual in most American kitchens.

Proceeds from the sale of the cookbooks will go to support the many programs and outreach lectures sponsored by the Aspen Center for Physics in the Roaring Fork Valley.

Beate Block is the wife of a physicist and an experienced cook. She has spent many years living abroad and attending particle physics conferences throughout the world with her husband. Bea now lives year-round in Aspen with her husband Martin, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. The Blocks are life-long devoted skiers and Martin is a flyfisherman of consumate skillwho fishes trout streams in Colorado today as he fished trout streams in Europe over the past many years. Martin is a member of the Aspen Center for Physics and founder of the Winter Physics Conferences. Maggie DeWolf, co-editor of this book, lives in Aspen with her husband Nick, engineer and physicist and builder of the Aspen Fountain which dances in the mall during the summer. Maggie is a member of the Aspen Center for Physics and has been responsible for putting on the Winter Public Lectures in the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen.