On Food and Cooking

whole point of Lent. In his 366 Menus (1872), Baron Brisse asked: “Are the meatless meals of our Lenten en ...

fruits and vegetables were soon officially canonized as one of the four food groups that should be ea ...

Refinements of 17th-Century Vegetable Cooking Choose the largest asparagus, scrape them at the bottom, and ...

some herb of a stronger taste, so as to endanger the native sapor and virtue of the rest; but fall i ...

availability in ethnic markets. Yet another, at the opposite extreme, was the rediscovery of the traditional sy ...

varieties of familiar fruits and vegetables to revive, and many new foods to taste. It’s estimated that ther ...

prestige and availability pushed grains, vegetables, and fruits to the side of the plate and the end of the meal. ...

cells. For example, vitamin C refreshes the chemical state of metal components in many enzymes, and helps ...

animals by surgically precise manipulation of the DNA that makes up their genes. This manipulation bypasses th ...

with rennet made by microbes into which the cattle gene for the enzyme has been inserted. But ...

varieties of wheat and cattle, citrus fruits and chillis, many of which had never before existed in n ...

and economic issues be considered by all concerned — by the biotechnology and agriculture industries, th ...

Nutritional science has undergone a profound revolution in that time. For most of the 20th century it aimed ...

meaning “leaf” — that modulate our metabolism. Antioxidants Oxidative Damage: The Price of Living One major the ...

DNA can cause that cell to multiply uncontrollably and grow into a tumor. Oxidative damage to th ...

turn out to be a goldmine of antioxidants. Some Beneficial Effects of Chemicals in Fruits and Vegetables, Her ...

(carotenoids: lutein) Citrus fruits, corn (carotenoids: zeaxanthin) Blood lipids: slow development of heart disease ...

Raisins, dates, chillis, tomatoes (salicylates) Reduce the body’s own production of DNA-damaging chemicals ...

bones Onions, parsley (responsible agents not yet identified) Encourage the growth of beneficial bacteria in th ...

molecules that keep these high-energy reactions from damaging essential DNA and proteins. Among th ...