Ep 204: A Scientist in the Kitchen
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Cooking Is a Strategic Application of Heat to Transform an Ingredient
Cooking is a strategic application of heat to transform an ingredient into a narrow range of acceptable flavors and textures. A lot of the tasting actually happens in your brain, so that's the fun partright? There are sometimes cultural variations, which also account for things like salt for example. Women have more olfactory receptives than men; there are gender variations as well. But taste is bezarre. Taste is b of flavor is bizarre because you eat with your mouth, and when you break down these molecules, they go from the back of retro nasal, sort of alfaction, as it's not called 'a taste' but "a taste of food"
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