On Food and Cooking

dates from the 1930s, when the sevruga-sized eggs of this otherwise little-used fish were salted and ...

fish black, crunchy Japan: tobiko Grey mullet Small; often salted; pressed and dried for bottarga Italy: bottarga, Gre ...

Trout trout Tuna Small; often salted; pressed and dried for bottarga Italy: bottarga Whitefish Small, golden, crunchy, ...

Chapter 5 Edible Plants An Introduction to Fruits and Vegetables, Herbs and Spices Plants as Food The Nature of Pla ...

Texture Color Flavor Handling and Storing Fruits and Vegetables Post-Harvest Deterioration Handling Fresh P ...

Kimchi, Cucumber Pickles, Olives Sugar Preserves Canning We turn now from milk, eggs, meats, and fish, all ...

enemies and attract friends with colors, tastes, and scents, all chemical inventions that have shaped our ideas of ...

fields led to settlement, the first cities, and cultivation of the human mind. On the other hand, agriculture drasti ...

seeds — grains, legumes, nuts — have special properties, and are described separately in chapter 9. The Origin ...

The Bible doesn’t mention meat as food until after it records the first killing, Cain’s murder of hi ...

air, and run them on the energy in sunlight. Animals, on the other hand, can’t extract energy and construct ...

the green pigment we see in vegetation all around us, is a molecule that captures sunlight and initiates thi ...

burgeoned, they liberated vast quantities of oxygen (O 2 ), which radiation in the upper atmosphere c ...

some of which also make them flavorful, healthful, or both. In order to spread their offspring far a ...

gases with the air; and stalks support leaves and connect them with roots. Plants are essentially station ...

strong-tasting, sometimes poisonous warning signals that discourage bacteria, fungi, insects, and us from atta ...

responses to significant tastes — aversion to the bitterness typical of alkaloids and cyanide, attraction to the ...

seemingly perverse love of mustard and pepper and onions. This is the essential appeal of herbs and spices, a ...

Once male and female cells have come together and developed into offspring, they must be given a go ...

among them by being large and armored, or tiny and easily spilled, or poisonous.) So, unlike the rest o ...