to the emotional aspect of cooking, as the title of one of his books shows: Cooking is love, art, technique.

Aside his scientific work, the latest "political" work by Hervé This has been the invention (in 1994) and the promotion of synthetic cooking, also called Note by Note cuisine - the next stage in the application of science to the kitchen after molecular cooking (i.e. a technical way of producing food using equipments imported from laboratories).