By Jacob Webster-Jones Before the 16th century the origins of cinnamon were unknown to the European countries, it was known as a luxurious spice with medicinal properties that they could only get from trade on the silk road. In...
By Abbie Sommer In my house growing up we always had a well-stocked pantry of staple ingredients. Of course, there were the standard baking ingredients needed to make my mom’s famous chocolate chip cookies. There was dried pasta, beans,...
By Abbey Thiel Originally posted on Heated by Medium x Mark Bittman. Tomato juice is one of the most popular drinks served by flight attendants, yet how often do you see someone drinking the red beverage with two feet...
By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered A monk started to prepare his simple lunch of rice, vegetables, and broth. After meditating for hours, he grew hungry and wanted a delicious meal. He looked inside a wooden...
BY: MEGAN LOW Confession: I’ve been indulging in a little too much viewing of the popular show MasterChef recently. One thing that never fails to have me in awe and equal bewilderment is how the judges can instantly tell that...
By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered I grew up eating Vietnamese food. That can mean a lot of things to a lot of people, but for me, that meant an endless supply of white jasmine rice...
BY: ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER Kopi is the word for coffee in the Bahasa Indonesian language. Luwak is an Indonesian name of the Asian palm civet native to Southeast Asia shown in the picture below.1 The Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)...
By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered The Legend of Vanilla According to old legends told by the indigenous Totonac “Jaguar” people of Mexico, in a time before vanilla was cultivated, there lived the beautiful princess Tzacopontziza...
By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered Endless Tastes We’re all familiar with the four basic tastes of sweet, sour, salt, and bitter found in our food. Some of us may have even heard of the...