When people recount stories of how they moved away from a place that was formerly ‘home,’ the tale often features titbits on the interplay between migration and food culture. One of the first things the average migrant is likely to recollect about the early days of relocation is their culinary acclamatization. How they learned to…
You don’t have to be sold on a climate-friendly Thanksgiving recipe to experience changes on your table during the annual celebration. American families, particularly boomer parents, will attest to the marked shift in what lines the Thanksgiving table over the years. Inflation is a demon that can hardly be tamed, so food cost keeps rising…
Food label greenwashing often misleads grocery shoppers because of its underlying subtleties. From ‘carbon neutral’ to ‘eco-friendly’ and ‘all natural,’ more groceries are coming with sensational labels that may not mean what you think. Greenwashing is false claims, knowing or unknowing, that manufacturers make about the environmental friendliness of their products. Sometimes, these claims are…
The movement to popularize ugly produce recipes became a thing due to cases of food waste. There are food products that end up in a dumpster not because they are unhealthy or have expired, but because they are not aesthetically attractive. Almost everyone wants to eat only foods that are Instagram-worthy. What then becomes of…
A puff of smoke, a dramatic chill, and desserts that look like they were forged in a futuristic lab, that’s what cooking with liquid nitrogen looks like. Indeed, liquid nitrogen food preparation is a flagship activity of innovative cooking methods in molecular gastronomy. However, unlike other molecular gastronomy methods, cryogenic food techniques involve temperatures below…
