An anonymous reader quotes the Atlantic:
The sight of a cookie had never made me grimace until this one showed up in my email inbox. DoubleTree by Hilton, the hotel chain, was announcing that it would soon send a little oven and a batch of cookie dough to the International Space Station so that astronauts could, for the first time, bake chocolate-chip…
Tag: cooking
Pot of Soup Has Been Cooking For 45 Years
Source: https://nypost.com/2019/07/29/this-scary-pot-of-soup-has-been-cooking-for-45-years/…
Cooking skills aren’t enough to make you eat a healthy diet
A lack of cooking skills has been linked to eating poorer diets, but a study of culinary students has found kitchen skills don’t always lead to a better diet Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209234-cooking-skills-arent-enough-to-make-you-eat-a-healthy-diet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
A computer model explains how to make perfectly smooth crepes
Here’s how to prepare thin pancakes that are perfectly smooth, according to science. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/computer-model-physics-cooking-perfect-crepes4…
Delivery App Orders Restaurants To Cook Almost Whatever You Want
Russia’s largest tech company is launching a delivery service that allows a customer to tell a restaurant what to cook, whether it’s on the menu or not. From a report: Yandex NV will prepare meal kits with ingredients based on a customer’s requested dish and send it to a nearby restaurant for cooking. Once the food is ready, Yandex couriers will…
Peasants in medieval England ate a diet of meat stew and cheese
Medieval peasants mainly ate stews of meat and vegetables, along with dairy products such as cheese, according to a study of old cooking pots Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2203574-peasants-in-medieval-england-ate-a-diet-of-meat-stew-and-cheese/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
It’s Hurricane Preparedness Week. Are you ready?
May 5-11, 2019, is Hurricane Preparedness Week in the U.S. If a hurricane were approaching, would you and your family be ready? This post will tell you how to prepare. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/are-you-prepared-for-a-hurricane…
Best Free (and Almost Free) Resources to Help You Eat a Plant-rich Diet
Sofia Adamson – There are tons of resources available online to get you on the path of eating a plant-based diet. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/29/best-free-and-almost-free-resources-to-help-you-eat-a-plant-rich-diet/…
Can home cooking change the world? | Gastón Acurio
When Gastón Acurio started his now world-famous restaurant Astrid & Gastón in the 1990s, no one suspected that he would elevate the Peruvian home-cooking he grew up with to haute cuisine. Nearly thirty years and a storied career later, the chef wants the rest of us to embrace our culinary roots and transform the world with the meals we prepare…
Behind the Scenes at edX
In the second part of our edX Insider series, we’re heading over to the engineering team to chat with a software engineer. We’re talking with Brittney, a Senior Software Engineer on our Business Engineering Team. A Colorado native, Brittney is a problem solver who is passionate about how edX uses technology for social good. Q: What do you think makes…