What Are You Doing For Thanksgiving?: Harmony Lu
Harmony Lu, pastry chef, eating steak scraps from the kitchen at Alexander's Steakhouse Taipei Harmony Lu Harmony Lu is the pastry chef and mastermind of modernist desserts at Alexander’s Steakhouse Taipei, the newest location of the California-based, Michelin star-winning Alexander's Steakhouse restaurant family. A former biogeochemist, Lu brings a firm grasp of science to the desserts she engineers in Taiwan. Popular Science spoke with her about her Thanksgiving plans, and some of the science behind them. What are you eating and/or making for Thanksgiving? People in Taiwan don’t really have a good idea of what Thanksgiving is. It’s a shame because it’s actually my favorite holiday, partly because it's so American, but also because the motivation and traditions for Thanksgiving are my favorite things -- simply getting together with people I love and sharing...