Panel A ‘Cottage loaf’, ‘snowman’ or ‘figure of 8’ heart shape due to total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, image reproduced with kind permission of the Images in Pediatric Cardiology journal. Panel B Outline of cottage loaf. Panel C Cottage loaf (a rustic traditional English loaf of bread made with yeast and white flour) consisting of […]
Tag: Food
How to live without ever eating food
Jasmuheen, winner of the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in literature, has yet another video in which she explains how to live one’s life without eating food, provided that one gets plenty of sunlight. She gets right down to business, more or less, at about the 1:00 minute mark: Jasmuheen was awarded her Ig Nobel Prize […]
Spence’s switcheroo of the sounds of bacon and eggs
Smithsonian magazine writes about Ig Nobel Prize-winner Charles Spence (who performed at our recent show in Leeds, on this year’s Ig Nobel Tour of the UK) and some of his research: Charles Spence is multisensory researcher in London, who has been messing around with how sounds modify flavor. “We’ve shown that if you take something with […]
Culinary medical terms for human feces
Various foods are in contemporary use as analogies for the stool (human feces) found in certain medical conditions. Below is a selection of such food-related medical stool metaphors: butter stool – of excess fecal fat pea-soup stool – of typhoid fever red-currant jelly stool – of intussusception rice-water stool – of cholera BONUS: Pea-soup stool can […]