“Polar Bears Unlikely to Thrive on Land-based Foods” says the headline in a press release from the US Geological Survey [USGS]. This adds a new piece to the puzzle of what will happen as polar bears more often meet reindeer, as ice melts force the polar bears to spend more time on land. Compare and […]
Tag: Food
The sound of flavor: A review of the research
Ig Nobel Prize winner Charles Spence, of Oxford University, has published a new study that reviews much of the research about the flavor of food. The study is: “Eating with our ears: assessing the importance of the sounds of consumption on our perception and enjoyment of multisensory flavour experiences,” Charles Spence, Flavour, vol. 4, no. […]
Fractal Hamentaschen and Other Mathematical Baking
Among the more unusual arenas in which to construct fractals—objects with self-similar (or at least approximately self-similar) features on all scales—is in the kitchen. For example, one might consider creating a fractal generalization of a hamentasch, a traditional Jewish pastry that consists of dough in the shape of a triangle along with a filling in […]
Bananas regulations clarifications
This year is (roughly) the 20th anniversary of the publication of EU Commission Regulation (EC) No 2257/94. So what better time to take another look at ‘Laying down quality standards for bananas’. The regulation caused, and continues to cause debate centering around the acceptable curvature of bananas – which some now cite as a standard example […]