On Food and Cooking

a high concentration of amino acids, mainly glutamic acid), with a rich aroma. Several hundred aroma ...

with salt water, but with a previous batch of soy sauce. “Chemical” Soy Sauce Industrial producers hav ...

Fermented soy pastes and sauces developed into many different regional variations in Asia. Among t ...

sauce, read the label carefully, and avoid products that include added flavorings and colors. Tempeh Tempeh w ...

alkaline (from the breakdown of amino acids into ammonia) and for developing a sticky, slippery slime th ...

Nuts and Other Oil-Rich Seeds From the first, the English word nut meant an edible seed surrounded by a h ...

generally larger, richer in oil, and require little or no cooking to be edible and nourishing. This combination ...

The bulk of most nuts consists of the embryo’s swollen storage leaves, or cotyledons, but coconuts and pine ...

Many of these same phenolic compounds are effective antioxidants and so nutritionally valuable. But becaus ...

vitamins and minerals and of fiber. Notable among the vitamins is the antioxidant vitamin E, especially concentr ...

components of nuts and seeds by percentage of the seed’s edible weight. Chestnuts and coconut meat are ...

Pistachio 5205419 Poppy seed 7184524 Sesame seed 5185024 Sunflower 5244720 Walnut, black 3215915 Walnut, English 4156416 Nut ...

Most nuts contain at least traces of free sugars. Some contain more than a trace and are noticeably swe ...

temperatures. Shell-less kernels are best refrigerated. Because they contain very little water and so don’t suff ...

simply oven-toasted or fried for a few minutes, which transforms the chewy, pliable, bland, pale seeds int ...

protein-emulsifier blend to help retain the salt. Peanuts are salted in the shell by being soaked in brine un ...

The color and astringency of hard-to-remove walnut skins can be lightened significantly by a brief boiling i ...

made in Spain and Turkey, walnut soups in Mexico, coconut soups in Brazil, pecan and peanut sou ...

Cold-pressed oils are generally used as a flavoring, refined oils as cooking oils. Nut oils ...

Europe, which learned about them from the Arabs, almond milks and creams were both luxurious ingre ...