He has written individual books on everything from ribs to beer can chicken to Latin cuisine, and in the process won five coveted James Beard Awards, a Julia Child Award, and was named CookingTeacher of the Year by Bon Appetit magazine.
"Breaking Bad taught me how to dispose of a corpse, " he tweeted on Jan. 16, referring to the popular AMC series about a dying chemistry teacher who turns to cooking methamphetamine to leave a nest egg for his family.
The handful of participating startups could be from a technocrat's dream with products ranging from a tablet teacher training software to a solar-powered cooking stove.