The heat does not exist in the seed. It is created on demand when the cell structure is broken and water is present, and it is unstable from the moment…
The whole subject rests on one arrangement: a stored precursor and an enzyme, kept in separate compartments inside the cell, which combine the moment anything damages the tissue. Here are…
The governing fact is volatility. An aroma compound has to leave the food and travel through air to reach you, and everything below is about what makes that more or…
Acid is the most under-used correction in home cooking, and most of what it does is invisible in the finished dish. Here are sixteen jobs it performs.
1. It Lifts…
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…