With publication of the new study “Pancake Flipping is Hard” by three researchers at the University of Nantes, the city of Nantes becomes the de facto international capital of pancake research. Details of the study are given below. First, here is a Google map showing primary sources of pancakes in the city: The study is: “Pancake Flipping […]
Tag: Food
Verdi’s Gastromusicology
The Bibliore blog reports: In opera, eating and drinking function largely as they do in society—they define social relationships…. [Some] gastromusicological laws may be deduced from Verdi’s operas: A meal is never sad. Hunger is never happy. A shared meal or drink is a socially cohesive event. The presence of food or drink precludes immediate catastrophe (unless poison is involved)…. […]
Food through a rabbit twice
Food generally passes through a rabbit twice, A Blog Around the Clock reminds you, and provides citations to several studies that, should you read them, will expand your knowledge of the phenomenon: [R]abbits are small. They have a single small stomach, and as much intestines as they can pack into their small bodies, and as […]
Eating: It’s complicated
Eating is not as simple as many people seem to believe. An upcoming seminar (at Harvard University, on September 7) promises to drive home that point (which is actually a complicated set of points): On September 7, 2011, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar Series Presents Kitchen confidential? Knowledge transfer and social norms in gourmet cuisine. […]
Meat, following vanilla, from dung
Hearing about unexpected things, people used to say, “How do they think up these things? There must be something in the water….” The Digital Trends web site, among others (see video, below), reports that a scientist has devised a way to make meat, of a sort, from feces: Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama […]
What do you feed to a scheming slime mold?
What do you feed a puzzle-solving slime mold, if you want the slime mold to be at its best? A new study suggests that the traditional food ought be replaced with something better, and suggests what that something is: “On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties,” Andrew Adamatzky, Nature Preceedings, […]
More NMR rides: Through Ugli and Okra
Think of this as Thrilling Virtual Rides Through Food (before the food takes a thrilling ride through you), part 2. Here are two more of Andy Ellison’s magnetic resonance images of foods. (He makes them into animated GIFs, which give a sort of thrilling quick ride through the food from one end, or side, or […]
Magnetic resonance imaging of berries, bamboo
Think of this as Thrilling Virtual Rides Through Food (before the food takes a thrilling ride through you), part 1. Andy Ellison does some lovely magnetic resonance imaging of foods. (Presumably he does other things, too. But we will concentrate here only on the foods). (He makes them into animated GIFs, which give a sort […]
“Do you want eggs with that?”
What are the levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans? For answers, see the online Defect Levels Handbook of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “These ‘Food Defect Action Levels’ listed in this booklet are set on this premise–that they pose no inherent hazard to […]
Ig winner inspires Starbucks music
Starbucks, the widespread purveyor of coffee, announced that the work of 2008 Ig Nobel Prize winner Charles Spence (who was honored for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is) inspired them to create a sort of […]