
Some people have extraordinary drive, and have earned the money to let them do something about their visions. Thus, a former CTO of Microsoft, who trained one day a week at a top Seattle restaurant while doing that job, and earned a couple of PhDs before that while being an award-winning photographer, has spent the last several years with his lab, designed for generating patents, working on a cookbook: The Modernist Cookbook. Here's PopSci's article on him and it. That pea butter sounds amazing.