Bitterness is the only taste that is universally rejected at first and widely sought out later, which makes it the most interesting of the five and the hardest to use…
The single most useful thing to know is that heat and flavour are independent. A very hot chilli can taste of almost nothing, and a mild one can carry an…
The common feature is that nobody is doing anything for most of the duration. The work is at the beginning and the end, and in between the food is changing…
Almost every quirk of cooking with pulses follows from one fact: they are dried on purpose, so everything you do is a negotiation about putting water back. Here are fifteen.…
Before printing, every copy of every text was made by hand and therefore differed from every other copy. Almost everything below follows from that changing. Here are sixteen.
1. Paper…
Ask most people whether counting is natural and they will say obviously yes. Every culture counts. Children learn numbers early. It feels less like a skill than a faculty.
The…