Month: July 2022
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Food is Love
Thematic for the arts and festivals alike, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a fantastical comedy about marriage and lovers’ bliss, fairies, elves, and their magic juice to turn any subject into that of passion. And when one is doted upon, one is fed with love’s extravagances,“with apricots and dewberries,with purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;The…
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Going on Holidays
Recently, I rewatched this neurotic comedy, 2 Days in New York. In it, Chris Rock played Mingus, the only apparently stable character of the whole cast, which says perhaps all you need to know about the movie. There was a scene where C.R. had an imaginary dialogue with Barack Obama about Hawai’i, and it made…
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Starches
I’ve been wondering about the differences between flours and starches. Starch is processed by grinding the starch-containing tubers or seeds and then mixing the pulp with water. The resulting paste is rid of its remaining impurities and dried into a powder. Flour results from crushing raw whole grains. Pure starch has been made since Roman…
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Fermenting Tofu Water
I’ve been keeping on with my tofu experiment, because the fat lady hadn’t sung yet. Using soured cheese water, aka fermented cheese whey, should have gotten me to a tofu texture closer to the tofu made with GdL. Surprisingly, it yielded an extra firm tofu instead. Furthermore, varying the salt level did not give a…
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Food is Science
Legend has it that the panettone was born from a forbidden romance in the 15th century. During a Christmas Eve feast hosted by the Duke of Milan – Ludovico il Moro, his head pastry chef burnt the dessert while stealing a kiss from a nobleman’s beautiful wife in the medieval passageway. A young scullery boy…
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