| Learn how stir-fry works with this awesome cutaway wok image | | As a little kid, I loved picture books where buildings and machines were shown in cutaway and everything, from apples to hats, was labeled—think Richard Scary or, more advanced, The Way Things Work. That's why this photo of a wok, taken from the book Modernist Cuisine, immediately caught my eye. The book teaches cooking technique and science with the help of tons of images, just like this. M [..] Leer nota completa |  | Publicado 22-Mar-2011 por Maggie Koerth-Baker en foodscience
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| How to: Make a hamantaschen Sierpinski triangle | | Seattle local food blogger Deborah Gardner has made something truly amazing—combining the delicious Jewish traditional filled cookies called hamantaschen with wondrous math geekery. It's Purim, so I'm making the hamantaschen recipe my grandmother z"l developed while she was alive, and passed down to me. It's my family obligation to make this recipe now every year and send hamantaschen out in [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 21-Mar-2011 por Maggie Koerth-Baker en foodscience
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| Crawfish discovery (and a recipe) | | Researchers have named a new species of giant crayfish. Barbicambarus simmonsi lives in Tennessee and somehow went unnoticed until 2009. Which reminds me that it's been a while since I last ate crawdad. Delicious, delicious crawdad. If you're lucky enough to live in the sort of place that sells bags of frozen, cooked crawfish tails in the supermarket*, I highly recommend the following recipe as a [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 21-Jan-2011 por Maggie Koerth-Baker en foodscience
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| The Candy Hierarchy | | With Halloween approaching, I thought it would be amusing to write a bit about candy, or more specifically, a system that aims to rank it. In this case, the rubric would be according to "emotional zeal" or something more jargony sounding like "joy induction." Anyway, this hierarchy is the work of a friend and colleague, Ben Cohen. Ben is an environmental historian over at the University of Virgini [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 22-Oct-2010 por David Ng en foodscience
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| Big Agriculture in CA gets $180K in federal funds to fight pesticide critics | | Image: A CC-licensed photo by Pink Sherbet Photography. If this news alert from the Environmental Working Group is to be believed, The CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture has awarded $180,000 in federal funds to finance an agribusiness-chemical industry plan to combat its critics, which include various health, consumer and organic farming advocates who have campaigned against overuse of pesticides on [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 23-Sep-2010 por Xeni Jardin en foodscience
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| Restaurante El Capricho De Gonzalo (Loza - Coaña) | | El Restaurante El Capricho De Gonzalo (http://www.occidente.com/capricho/) está situado en Loza (Coaña). Aparte del restaurante tiene tambien cafetería-bar y un complejo de apartamentos muy coquetos. Posee una extensa zona ajardinada y una piscina para dar servicio a los apartamentos.
Los fines de semana, verano y cuando el tiempo lo permite, instalan en el exterior del local unos hinchables [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 03-Nov-2008 por noreply@blogger.com (Tony) en foodscience
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