3. Cuisine note à note

In all of the above, proposed innovations were confined to the use of conventional food ingredients. Even if the use of gelling agents little used in Western countries has been proposed for "molecular cuisine" (various gelling agents or thickeners from the list of additives) , these products do not represent a real break with classic cuisine, especially since, for many of these gelling agents, culinary uses exist in Asian countries, for example.

• On the other hand, note-to-note cooking is a form of cuisine that breaks completely with previous forms of cooking, just as electroacoustic music broke with instrumental music. The...