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A collection of 24 posts

food

A Bit of Pizza

How a quest for Neapolitan pizza became a crypto-traditional discovery.

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Milk Unspoiled

How do you know your food is fresh? It started with Al Capone.

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Cornflakes of the Church

Coffee and mustard were considered sinful. So Kellogg made cereal instead.

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Marshmallow Plants

The precursor to today’s sweets were actually plants. And the originals could soon be back to cure you.

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Tomato Juice

Why does most airline food taste bad? And what doesn’t?

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From Paddy to Platter

More than half the people on this planet eat rice. But do you know the process by which it’s grown?

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Reverse Engineering

We combine ingredients to get the final product. Now, food scientists are doing it backwards.

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Feel the Churn

The science and history behind the making of butter

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Science of Salt

We have become a salt-obsessed society, but maybe we can blame our ancestors for that?

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Personal Diets

Why are we turning out diets into personality traits?

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Coffee at Work

We may not have the same jobs as you, but our life is busy too.

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Coffee Growing

The ecological processes behind one of the world’s most popular beverages

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How Meat made us Human

Eating more meat made us human. Now our survival demands we eat less of it.

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A Balanced Diet

Who decides what you eat? There’s a whole team behind it.

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Bubbly Beverages

The 17th-century mistake that put the ‘fizz’ into fizzy

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Divine Pomegranate

How a peculiar fruit captured hearts and imaginations across the world.

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A Vanilla Story

The highly processed history of a much overlooked fruit.

Air Fryer

Air Frying

Ever wondered how to deep-fry without oil? This is almost, if not quite, the same.

chemistry

The Attack of the Onion

Most of our vegetables can’t fight back. So how do onions bring us to tears?

biology

Cheese Crystals

White spots are good: are you throwing away a perfectly good cheese?

cooking

Dodging Microwaves

Stuck in a microwave oven? Here’s how not to get cooked.

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Eating Dishes

What if the main dish was really a dish?

culture

Thakkali Chutney

Who knew that Tomatoes could connect Tintin and The Pirates of the Caribbean?

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Types of Pasta

There are hundreds of different kinds of pasta — you’ll never be able to remember all of them!