Bringing food chemistry to life

Brought to my attention by a food science student – kinda cool. I wonder how susceptible to molds and other cellulase and chitinase producing organisms this material might be if used as a building material? Posted by Garrett Ohm on “Top Cultured‘ http://topcultured.com/design/ive-seen-the-future-and-its-made-of-mushrooms/ You can see more at http://www.ecovativedesign.com/ and a story from Rensselaer Polytechnic [...]

Getting ready for some work to showcase our wheat breeding activities… My version of petits pain d’oignons – Inspired by a colleague ex Toronto who cannot get them here. Basic baguette dough with poolish. Baker’s flour 60% Stoneground whole white wheat from our Hard Elite nurseries 40% instant yeast 1.2% salt 2.5% poolish 101%              (poolish [...]

Sent to me by a former student – this video is stunning – the footage of the Jello starts at about 35 seconds…  All that upwards elastic stored force seems to make the Jello cube almost hover momentarily before it falls back down the first time. FOLLOW THIS LINK -  I-Movix Sprintcam v3 sample shots [...]

Only for those with strong stomachs Via Kansas State U. Barfblog – Musings about food safety and things that make you barf Great archives under the “yuck factor” and “wacky and strange” categories. Taking food safety to the limit… Food Systems Chem Winter 2009

From IFIS – The International Food Information Service – and Food Science Central.  “A flavour of fermentation“  from Camu et al 2008.  Fermentation of cocoa beans: influence of microbial activities and polyphenol concentrations on the flavour of chocolate.  Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 88 (13) 2288-2297. To quote the piece – “Flavour [...]

From Food Media blog at Chow a story about a story that aired on NPR’s Fresh Air about the work of entomologist Doug Emlen from the University of Montana-Missoula. http://www.chow.com/media/7541 The main story is about dung beetles http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103775784 This page has a link to the broadcast so you can listen yourself. According to Chow the [...]

For food chem teachers and students from IFT A serious piece of work designed to make food chemistry concepts real. Find the PDF at http://extension.usu.edu/AITC/teachers/pdf/experiments_foodscience.pdf On a less formal basis are some experiments at http://www.momisteaching.com/science-is-sweet/ and http://chemistry.about.com/od/foodscienceprojects/Food_Science_Projects.htm and you can take the food chemistry quiz http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/bl040103a.htm and a topic close to my heart – pasta [...]