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Monthly Archives: September 2013

There’s no blood in red meat

Posted on September 29, 2013

The sight of what appears to be blood leaking onto a plate from a medium-rare steak can be off-putting. It’s one reason that steak is often overcooked, even though the trade-off is tough dry meat (and logically; cooked blood). But the juices that come out are not blood at all. Mammalian muscle requires oxygen to

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Posted in All posts, Science and information | Tags: Composition, Meat |

Why Cook?

Posted on September 28, 2013

Why cook? Well, there are the usual candidates (health, social, bonding, family), but what if cooking might define us as human? James Boswell had this to say in 1773: “My definition of Man is – ‘A Cooking Animal’. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain

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Posted in All posts, Thoughts and opinions | Tags: Brain, Evolution, Human |

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