After posting about dieting on a food blog, I thought I should make amends – an atonement by way of chocolate. While humans have been drinking chocolate for millennia, they only worked out how to turn it into a block fairly recently (not much more than 100 years). The process involves multiple steps, starting with
My ‘Four Diet Dictums’: 1: All Diets work in the short term. 2: All Diets work equally in the short term. 3: All Diets fail in the long term. 4: All Diets fail equally in the long term. This is my interpretation of the science. It may seem nihilistic, but I think it’s empowering. For example, if you want
The home cook has limited options for melting a non-melty cheese (e.g. cheddar), often resorting instead to a ‘manufactured cheese-like substance’ that has been engineered to melt (something from the Kraft line, for example). What is the problem with melting cheese? It doesn’t melt as an emulsion, it separates into a tough protein lump surrounded by