Food means a lot to people for different reasons. It means enough that Yale has created a whole series of twenty-three lectures on the subject. It’s called “The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food”.
Continue reading...Saturday, April 17, 2010
Salty, sweet, sour, and bitter are the 4 basic tastes. Recently we heard about umami (protein based flavor such as meat, cheese, broth). The taste that’s even more recent, and was found by researchers at Deakin University and University of Adelaide, is fat.
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 9, 2010
We’ve all heard that there are benefits to drinking wine (red wine in particular). But what about beer? Beer obviously doesn’t get as much credit for having a health benefit, but beer drinkers should be happy to hear the good news.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
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