On Food and Cooking

Characteristics of Some Common Legumes Soybeans and Their Transformations Nuts and Other Oil-Rich Seeds Nut St ...

life. The bulk of the tissue that surrounds it is a food supply to nourish this rebirth. It’s the d ...

Euphrates rivers, and in the Jordan River valley. The first plants to be brought under human selection there were ...

hierarchy in which a few benefit from the labor of many. Seeds of Thought The development of agriculture had a ...

advanced intellectual syntheses: life as rhythmic, death as a return, and so on. These syntheses were e ...

admonishment that “All flesh is grass.” As ingredients, seeds have much in common with milk and e ...

Grains, or Cereals These words are near synonyms. The cereals (from Ceres, the Roman goddess of ...

most important grains in the Middle East and Europe; in Asia, rice; in the New World, maize, or corn; in A ...

Legumes The legumes (from the Latin legere, “to gather”) are plants in the bean family, the Leguminosae, whose ...

protected with an array of several biochemical defenses. Lentils, broad beans, peas, and chick peas are all n ...

Most of them store their energy not in starch but in oil, a more compact, concentrated chemical for ...

energy and building tissue. In fact, they’re such a good source of these essential nutrients that cultur ...

century to the discovery of the vitamins whose deficiencies cause them. Today, even though most people in As ...

that are not found in inner storage tissues, which are mainly depots of starch and protein. Among the chemicals ...

antioxidants, some of which resemble human hormones and may restrain cell growth and thereby the development of ...

both the bean and the susceptibility are relatively rare. Two other problems are more common. Seeds are Common ...

usually seed proteins, and cooking does not render them less allergenic. Tiny quantities of nut proteins a ...

Seeds and Food Poisoning Seeds are generally dry, with only about 10% of their weight coming from wa ...

and other diseases (for example, species of Aspergillus produce a carcinogen called aflatoxin, and Fusarium mo ...

and oils to feed the embryo. Each part influences the texture and flavor of the cooked seeds. The outer protectiv ...