On Food and Cooking

the so-called “thousand-year-old” duck eggs, which actually have only been made for about 500 years, take ...

create a paste that dries to a protective crust, though the eggs can also be immersed in a water sol ...

fermentation: that is, it denatures the egg proteins, and breaks down some of the complex, f ...

alkalinity intensifies the egg’s flavor by breaking down both proteins and phospholipids into hy ...

pale, snowflake traceries. Such eggs are known as songhuadan, or “pine-blossom” eggs. The “blossoms” turn ...

Chapter 3 Meat Eating Animals The Essence of the Animal: Mobility from Muscle Humans as Meat Eaters The History of Me ...

Muscle Tissues and Meat Texture Muscle Fiber Types: Meat Color Muscle Fibers, Tissues, and Meat Flavor Product ...

Texture Meat Doneness and Safety Cooking Fresh Meat: The Methods Modifying Texture Before and After Cookin ...

Sausages Pâtés and Terrines Preserved Meats Dried Meats: Jerky Salted Meats: Hams, Bacon, Corned Beef Smoked Meats ...

brain that marked the evolution of early hominids into humans. Later, meat was the food tha ...

throughout history have found this a morally unacceptable price for our own nourishment and pleasure. The ethi ...

quarters poured out glistening wine while young men at his side held five-pronged forks. Once they had b ...

filled with many fibrils, which are assemblies of actin and myosin, the proteins of motion. When a musc ...

getting younger and leaner, and therefore more prone to end up dry and flavorless. Traditional cooking methods don’t al ...

part of the animal, and organ meats, such innards as the liver, kidneys, intestine, and so on. The Essence of the ...

protein filaments is what makes meat such a rich nutritional source of protein. An electrical impulse fro ...

plants, are rich rather than starchy. Because fat is critical to animal life, most animals are able to take ...

Humans as Meat Eaters Meat became a predictable part of the human diet beginning around 9,000 years ago ...

The Scarcity of Meat in Agricultural Societies Around the time that our ancestors domesticated animals, t ...

to the development of managed pastures and formulated feeds, the intensive breeding of animals for efficient meat ...