The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

To Adri, who loves me despite the burgers;
To Ed, Vicky, and the whole Serious Eats team, for helping
me do my thing;
To my father, the scientist;
To my grandfather, the nutty professor;
To the one sister I like better than the other;
To my mother, who would have preferred a doctor;
To the other sister as well;
To Dumpling, Hambone, and Yuba, the best taste-testers a
man could ever hope for;
And to my grandmother, who would have preferred a
Tostitos jar.