Month: January 2014
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Contemplating a visual dictionary of pastry folds
Recently I discovered the joys of pre-made puff pastry. Despite what might seem to be my penchant for studying long […]
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Tasty Wheat and Soya Protein: Tivall Burgers
In my continued exploration of food-grade protein design, yesterday we tried: Tivall Vegetarian Burgers. I obtained this from Whole Foods […]
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“Biggest Drain Cover I Have Ever Seen” turns out to be “Not A Drain Cover After All”
Today at Markfield Park we saw what I thought must be the biggest drain cover I had ever seen in […]
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DNA Extraction from Strawberries
Three strawberries lovingly squished by hand to break down the cell walls of the strawberry. Strawberries are octoploid, meaning that […]
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Urban Lichen, or maybe just “The City of Gum”
Yesterday after two continuous days of thinking about mould, on the way home I saw these ubiquitous splotches on the […]
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Codex Borturini
Yesterday while doing research on Huitlacoche (Corn Smut) I ended up trying to find the Florentine Codex (before 1519) to […]
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Tasty Mould: Quorn, Tempeh, and Huitlacoche
Many vegetarians probably have heard of these protein alternatives (Quorn and Tempeh) but I find it surprising how it is […]
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The Unknown Language
“The dream: to know a foreign (alien) language and yet not to understand it: to perceive the difference in it […]