On Food and Cooking

certain giving cohesiveness is part of the pleasure of melted cheese. Stringy cheese can be enjoyable on pizz ...

because their protein molecules are more concentrated and so more intimately bonded to each other ...

ricotta, and most fresh goat cheeses; all of them are curdled exclusively or primarily by means ...

Stringiness Melted cheese becomes stringy when mostly intact casein molecules are cross-linked together b ...

and moist ones like Caerphilly, Colby, and Jack are preferred for making such melted preparation ...

meters! Cheese Sauces and Soups When cheese is used to bring flavor and richness to a sauce (Gruy ...

cheese’s melting point will tend to tighten the protein patches into hard clumps and squeeze out their fat. ...

centuries cheese has been melted in a communal pot at the table and kept hot over a flame for dipping brea ...

Toppings, Gratins When a thin layer of cheese is heated in the oven or under a broiler — on a ...

unripened materials. It began as a kind of resolidified, long-keeping fondue made from trimmings of genu ...

calcium from the casein matrix, but also bind to the casein themselves, bringing moisture with them and thus ...

abundant fat is highly saturated and therefore tends to raise blood cholesterol levels. However, France and Gr ...

outbreaks of food poisoning in the United States caused by cheese, nearly all involving contamination of the mil ...

foreign molds (Aspergillus versicolor, Penicillium viridicatum and P. cyclopium) may occasionally develop on ...

decay, which is caused by acid secretion from relatives of a yogurt bacterium (especially Streptococcus m ...

Chapter 2 Eggs The Chicken and the Egg The Evolution of the Egg The Chicken, from Jungle to Barnyard The Industrial ...

The Chemistry of Egg Flavor Basic Egg Dishes Eggs Cooked In the Shell Eggs Cooked Out of the Shell Egg-Liquid M ...

The egg is one of the kitchen’s marvels, and one of nature’s. Its simple, placid shape houses an everyday ...

primal, the unstructured stuff of life. This is why they are protean, why the cook can use them to gener ...

overwhelmed by the sun. So the egg does embody the chain of creation, from the developing chick back through ...