The useful frame is that you are not protecting the fruit. You are making conditions that the organisms which would spoil it cannot tolerate, and there are only about five…
The single most useful realisation is that you cannot turn coals down. Every control available is about moving the food or changing what is between it and the heat. Here…
The useful way to look at any blade is as a solution to a specific material. Something dense, something soft, something with skin, something that must not be crushed -…
There is an enormous quantity of food on this planet that almost nothing can eat.
Cellulose makes up the structural walls of plant cells, which means it constitutes the bulk…
The organising idea is that none of these were grown to be eaten. Each is a plant storing resources to survive a dormant season, and every culinary property follows from…
The underlying operation is always the same: bacteria convert milk sugars into acid, the acid changes the proteins and the product keeps. What differs is which bacteria, at what temperature,…