You might think sugar only sweetens your favourite cupcakes, but it actually plays a couple of other roles as well. The Maillard reaction聽for example, which is聽responsible for many of the...
British chef Jamie Oliver opened up quite a can of worms with his plan to improve the food served in Los Angeles schools.聽 Actually, worms would probably be an improvement over some of the fatty...
"That's the way the cookie crumbles!"聽 How often have you heard that expression?聽 It is usually a statement of disappointment which may be paraphrased as "tough luck."聽 But why does a cookie...
Wood burning stoves are a health hazard. Period. Not debatable. To understand, we first have to examine what combustion is all about. When cellulose and lignin, the major components of wood, burn...
A resounding 鈥渘ot true!鈥� First of all, all food is dead, unless you graze on grass or take a bite out of a living cow, neither of which is advisable. As far as nutrition goes, microwave cooking is...
One wouldn鈥檛 expect that frying a steak exposes the cook to the same chemical that is used in mothballs, but it does. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology were...
Subjecting various foods to smoke is an age-old method used both for preservation and flavouring. But there are issues. Smoke contains a variety of cancer causing compounds. And in this case, we...
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