Elise Hu

You know, the one who makes elaborate, gorgeous, intricate, edible structures all out of chocolate.

The ones whose videos have amassed literally billions of views over the years.

Well, we have a tasty treat for you on today's episode.

Omari Gishaw, considered by some as the world's most creative pastry chef, joins Lateef Nasser, co-host of Radiolab and a guest curator at TED 2025, for a talk and demonstration and the important role food plays in the creation of wonder.

He shows us how he manages to captivate the entire world with only one ingredient and without ever speaking a word.

Hey all, Elise here to give you some context for what you're hearing.

As Amaury describes what goes into making the coffee clock and the reasons behind doing the work that he does,

There's a video behind him on stage of him working on all of the elements of this delicate edible clock.

At this point in Amory's conversation with Latif, someone has wheeled a cart on stage with all of the ingredients needed to make this coffee clock in real time.

A camera is pointed down on the cart so we can see the details of what's on it.

And we see intricate, tiny pieces of a clock.

I'm talking about all of the gears, the clock hands painted in metallic colors.

They all look so real.

It's truly hard to believe they're made of chocolate.

Omri walks us through what would be the final stage of this process, which is putting the clock together.

Yes, Omri does have a heat gun with him on stage.

And that sound you're hearing is him warming up this chocolate glue that he's describing as we continue to watch his hands delicately put together these pieces.

Et voilà.

At this point, as you can imagine, Omri has finished.

With Latif's wow, we see a gorgeous, glossy, dark chocolate cake with the clock sitting on top.