6XC Modernist Home Cooking | Monthly Archives: January 2015

Wine labels and alcohol content

Posted on January 22, 2015

Wine labeling, regulated by legislation, ensures that the consumer is provided with facts about alcohol percentage and the number of ‘standard drinks’. Or does it? What do those numbers mean? Numbers have a habit of looking scientific, especially if they have a decimal point. So, a red wine label stating 14.5% per volume (Australian wines

Thai Basil Daiquiri

Posted on January 1, 2015

Enzymes are naturally-occurring in almost all foods we eat, plant and animal. In plants they are mainly a defense mechanism. The main enzyme group is the polyphenol oxidases (PPOs). These enzymes are stored outside the plant’s vacuoles (flavour and water stores). Plant vacuoles support their parent structure because they are held at a higher internal