Your Scrambled Eggs Are Wrong, And Other Cooking Science Lessons From...
Science The food experimenters who publish Cook’s Illustrated have put together a cookbook featuring 50 kitchen science lessons every home cook should know. We put some to the test. I learned how to...
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Science The creations of this London bartender are among the tastiest marriages of art and science. In his new book, he reveals some secrets. At 69 Colebrooke Row, his bar in London, Tony Conigliaro...
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Military A new book tracks today's convenience foods back to the wars they came out of The list of military inventions that have transformed civilian life is long, stretching back at least as far as...
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Science A book by a Danish scientist and a Danish chef makes the fifth taste accessible The so-called fifth taste, which is the subject of a new book by Mouritsen and a Danish chef named Klavs...
View ArticleHow We Learn To Eat
Science A new book looks at the science of what we like taste… taste…
View ArticleA Surprisingly Deep History Of Jet Engines And The Planes That Carried Them
Aviation The Big Book of X-Bombers and X-Fighters, reviewed In "The Big Book of X-Bombers and X-Fighters," Steve Pace reviews the history of the Air Force's experimental planes…
View ArticleWill The Food Of The Future Be 'Unnaturally Delicious'?
Science Jayson Lusk's new book makes the case for robot chefs and pink slime "Disruptive" innovations could save our lives and our planet, if only we'd get over our nostalgic obsession with so-called...
View Article'Grunt', Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Maggots
Military A review of Mary Roach's latest, on everything about war that isn't about guns Review of Mary Roach's "Grunt."…
View ArticleHow To Train Your Cat Using Science
Animals A new book made my cat less neurotic When The Trainable Cat, a book by animal behaviorists John Bradshaw and Sarah Ellis, came across my desk, I decided to try out some of the tactics to see...
View ArticleUnder The Microscope, Food Has A Big Personality
Science A new science book peers at the exciting secret lives of ingredients Since the days of the alchemists, the kitchen has been the household's main experimental space, a laboratory where base...
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