Christopher Anderson and Janie Wang use spherification products at their home in Eliot, Maine. Anderson, a software developer by trade, launched Modernist Pantry with his wife, Wang, two years ago when he couldn't find the ingredients needed for his culinary dabbling. Today, Modernist Pantry carries more than 300 ingredients in quantities tailored to the home kitchen, as well as equipment.

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Christopher Anderson and Janie Wang use spherification products at their home in Eliot, Maine. Anderson, a software developer by trade, launched Modernist Pantry with his wife, Wang, two years ago when he couldn't find the ingredients needed for his culinary dabbling.

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Modernist Pantry co-owners, Christopher Anderson and Janie Wang, have a warehouse in Eliot, Maine. Modernist Pantry carries more than 300 ingredients in quantities tailored to the home kitchen, as well as equipment.

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Colorful product labels frame shipper John McWilliams of Kittery, in background, at the Modernist Pantry warehouse in Eliot, Maine.

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Christopher Anderson uses Modernist Pantry products to create flavor spheres, above, in his kitchen in Eliot, Maine. He and his wife, Janie Wang, at left, launced Modernist Pantry two years ago when he couldn't find the ingredients needed for his culinary dabbling. Today, Modernist Pantry carries more than 300 ingredients in quantities tailored to the home kitchen, as well as equipment.

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Modernist Pantry co-owners Christopher Anderson and his wife Janie Wang created their company two years ago and have seen their business more than double as interest in molecular gastronomy among home cooks has grown.

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