White House Chef: Eleven Years, Two Presidents, One Kitchen

White House Chef: Eleven Years, Two Presidents, One Kitchen by Andrew Friedman and Walter Scheib
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0471798428 | 336 pages | EPUB | 12,5 MB

“An engaging book about life at the Executive Mansion. . . . Hillary Clinton had charged this fiercely competitive, meticulously organized chef with bringing ‘what’s best about American food, wine, and entertaining to the White House.’ His sophisticated contemporary food was generally considered some of the best ever served there.”

–Marian Burros, New York Times

White House Chef

Join Walter Scheib as he serves up a taste–in stories and recipes–of his eleven years as White House chef under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Scheib takes readers along on his whirlwind adventure, from his challenging audition process right up until his controversial departure. He describes his approach to meals ranging from the intimate (rooftop parties and surprise birthday celebrations for the Clintons; Tex-Mex brunches for the Bushes) to his creative approach to bringing contemporary American cuisine to the “people’s house” (including innovative ways to serve state dinners for up to seven hundred people and picnics and holiday menus for several thousand guests).

Scheib goes beyond the kitchen and his job as chef. He shares what it is like to be part of President Clinton’s motorcade (the “security bubble”) and inside the White House during 9/11, revealing how he first evacuates his staff and then comes back to fix meals for hundreds of hungry security and rescue personnel. Staying cool under pressure also helps Scheib in other aspects of his job, such as withstanding the often-changing “temperature” of the White House and satisfying the culinary sensibilities of two very different first families.

Einstein"s Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions [Audiobook]

Einstein’s Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions By Thad Roberts, read by Jonathan Farkasofsky
2015 | 20 hours and 31 minutes Pages | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: B016AU6OT4 | MP3 32 kbps | 289 MB

Presented in clear and accessible language, Roberts offers the listener a voyage through the stages of human knowledge. He then examines the outstanding mysteries of modern physics, the phenomena that lie outside the borders of our current understanding (dark energy, dark matter, the Big Bang, wave-particle duality, quantum tunneling, state vector reduction, etc.) and suggests that the next step in our intellectual journey is to treat the vacuum of space as a superfluid – modeling it as being composed of interactive quanta, which, in a self-similar way, are composed of subquanta, and so on.
With this proposition, Roberts imbues the vacuum with fractal geometry and opens the door to explaining the outstanding mysteries of physics geometrically. Roberts’ model, called quantum space theory, has been praised for how it offers an intuitively accessible picture of 11 dimensions and for powerfully extending the insight of general relativity, eloquently translating the four forces into unique kinds of geometric distortions while offering us access to the underlying deterministic dynamics that give rise to quantum mechanics. That remarkably simple picture explains the mysteries of modern physics in a way that’s fully commensurate with Einstein’s Intuition. It’s a refreshingly unique perspective that generates several testable predictions.