On Food and Cooking

mutagenic nitrosamines in our digestive systems. The anatomy of a mushroom. The hyphae are nutrient-gathering threa ...

concentrated natural source of monosodium glutamate. Another taste enhancer that’s synergistic with glutamate, GM ...

Other mushrooms offer a wide range of aromas. A close relative of the common mushroom produces the es ...

flavorful because they’re endowed with sulfur compounds that generate meaty aromas. Even home-dried button mush ...

loosely wrapped in moisture-absorbing packaging to avoid having the moisture they exhale wet their surfaces and ...

concentrate the amino acids, sugars, and aromas. Heat also collapses air pockets and consolidates the texture. ...

the genus Tuber, of which there are a handful of commercially important ones. They’re typically a dense, ...

remains renowned for its black winter truffles, Tuber melanosporum, and northern and central Italy for its white ...

mating behavior in the sow. Some people are unable to smell androstenone, while others can and may find i ...

spores are contained in the thick masses of tissue between the vein-like folds. Mushroom Types and Quali ...

oyster Shiitake Cultivated oak decomposers Lentinus edodes Matsutake Wild red pine decomposers; pine, cinnamon flavors ...

Ink cap Wild compost decomposers Coprinus species Nameko, cinnamon cap Cultivated wood decomposers; gelatinous cap Pholiota ...

Chanterelle Wild tree symbionts; gold, white, red Cantharellus species Black chanterelle, horn of plenty Wild tree ...

Lobster Wild mushroom decomposers Hypomyces lactifluorum Fresh truffles are very perishable and emit their aroma ...

infection, when the galls on a single ear can weigh as much as a pound/500 gm and are about three-quarte ...

Fusarium venenatum. A strain of the fungus originally taken from a field in Buck- inghamshire, England, ...

Chapter 7 A Survey of Common Fruits The Making of Fruit: Ripening Before Ripening: Growth and Expansion The Work ...

Others The Citrus Family: Orange, Lemon, Grapefruit, and Relatives Some Common Tropical Fruits The vegetables ...

fruits, especially the balance between sweet and sour that provides their taste foundation. The Makin ...

A fruit is a distinct organ that develops from the flower, and in particular from the flower’s female ti ...