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This isn't the kind of "food science" we normally post here, but I found it fascinating.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/kitchen-science-how-mayonnaise-is-advancing-nuclear-fusion-research/

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"Ick factor" indeed.

https://undark.org/2024/08/21/plastic-waste-transformed-into-food-for-humans/

“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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Ah, to be a researcher in the age of microbiomes and genetic sequencing. Everybody knows there are a few Nobels to be had from it, but it'll take a few decades to see which lines of inquiry take the field into entirely novel directions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02778-8

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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I'm melting.....

 

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From pizza to panini and from quiche to quesadilla, melted cheese plays a starring role in countless culinary classics. But why do some cheeses melt into ooey-gooey deliciousness, and others simply don’t?

 

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

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A look under the hood at the work going into improved plant-based eggs. They're one of the hardest things for people with allergies to replace, so there's a potentially big market for this outside of the vegan world.

 

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/creating-the-perfect-plant-based-egg

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"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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Not a phrase I'd expected to type this morning (or ever), but... VR flavors, anyone?

 

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/licking-this-lollipop-will-let-you-taste-virtual-flavors/

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"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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44 minutes ago, chromedome said:

Not a phrase I'd expected to type this morning (or ever), but... VR flavors, anyone?

 

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/licking-this-lollipop-will-let-you-taste-virtual-flavors/

 

I've always wished we had "smell-o-rama" (or, more entertainingly, "aromarama") or its taste equivalent on this forum. Interesting that someone's getting closer to the concept. Thanks!

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If you draw a Venn diagram of software engineering and sourdough breadmaking, this is the place where they intersect.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/11/flour-water-salt-github-the-bread-code-is-a-sourdough-baking-framework/

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And from the day before the sourdough article, a reminder about lime-related phytophotodermatitis: 

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/11/man-suffers-chemical-burn-that-lasted-months-after-squeezing-limes/

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

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Researchers at the University of Bath, England, RWTH Aachen and Goethe University Frankfurt have found that sales of the last lonely banana on supermarket shelves rise by 58% if labelled as being 'sad and lonely'.

 

The story is here.

 

In other banana news some idiot from China has paid $6.2 million for a banana and eaten it. He needs a different sort of scientist - a psychiatrist. Clearly bananas.

 

That story is here. 

 

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
Mark Twain
 

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Maison Rustique

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@liuzhou, thanks for sharing that. Fascinating stuff. As my husband got older, his mouth got very dry and what he would eat changed completely. I always chalked it up to his dementia, but now wondered if some it his eating habits were more related to dry mouth.

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1 hour ago, Maison Rustique said:

@liuzhou, thanks for sharing that. Fascinating stuff. As my husband got older, his mouth got very dry and what he would eat changed completely. I always chalked it up to his dementia, but now wondered if some it his eating habits were more related to dry mouth.

 

My mom's been finding her mouth getting drier too, which is a common outcome for people with Parkinson's (in part because of the disorder itself, and in part because of the medications used to treat it). She always has a glass or bottle of water nearby, whether she's eating or not. It amazes her that I usually don't have a beverage of any sort with meals ("I wouldn't be able to choke anything down at all!").

I wonder to what extent dry mouth contributes to dysphagia in some people, especially in cases of advanced dementia? As some of you know, one of my cousins is losing her husband (only in his early 60s) to an aggressive form of early-onset Alzheimer's. On my last visit she told me that he's reached the dysphagia stage, and is rapidly wasting away now.

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"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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I sat in the dining room at the memory care many times this past year. You'd be amazed how many of the patients had a hard time eating--lots of choking at every meal. Some did have Parkinson's and I am pretty sure meds used for that are sometimes used for other dementia types, too. When they got to a certain stage, they would put them on liquid diets.

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I don't suffer from dry mouth but I do eat too fast. It goes back to my days of working in restaurants when you always seem to be eating on the Fly. Lately, Foods just don't seem to taste as good. Well, last night I decided to try something different. I had a small bag of Doritos and I ate them very slowly and chewed them thoroughly. I was amazed. They actually tasted like the Doritos I remembered. So there definitely is something to letting the saliva do its job.

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