Andres Viestad, host of pubTV’s New Scandinavian Cooking with Andres Viestad, launched a new monthly column for the Washington Post today. The column, called “The Gastronomer,” is about “the science of everyday cooking,” according to the editor’s note. “Kitchen science tends to forget the enjoyment part of gastronomy; it can be far too demanding when it suggests how we can improve the way we cook,” writes Viestad in his first installment.