Sound. Shape. Satellite dishes. And how owls hunt for food with their faces and ears.
Category: Brain Food
The art of plating: a point-by-point color guide.
Plating. Color wheel. Pointillism. And what A Sunday on La Grande Jatte teaches us about serving a feast of colors for the eyes.
Go plated.
Food plating. Industrial Revolution. Culture. And how ceramic plates civilized the home.
There and back again – a saucy tale.
Trade and food. Language and sauces. Geography and history. And how ketchup and fermented fish became kecap.
Have salt will travel.
Sausage. Salsa. Salami. And how salt, food, history and language travelled around the world.
Wanna gas which beers have balls?
Nitrogen and CO2. Pressure and solubility. Nucleation and bubbles. And why some beer cans have a beer can widget in them.
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The whole tooth and nothing but the tooth about fluorine.
Fluoride. Ions. Electronic configuration. And how water and toothpaste can protect our teeth from decay.
If I micelle so, you are looking fat and white.
Light scattering. Fats. Micelles. And why whole milk is whiter than fat-free milk (and sweetened condensed milk is yellow).
Take my breath away.
Chemistry. Biology. Physics. And how breathalyzers are designed using principles also found in food and cooking.
How the West came from behind to ketchup with the East.
Trade. History. Language. And how the word “ketchup” spread from Asia to the West (really!).
