Most recipes try to rush the process, promising to wrap things up & get the dish on the table in a couple of hours. These days recipes are steeped in the general sense of panic about time & so have tr...
Ninety percent of a cooked egg is digested whereas only 65 percent of a raw egg is; by the same token, the rarer the steak, or more al dente the pasta, the less of it will be absorbed. Dieters take no...
One would expect to find a comparatively high proportion of carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] in the flesh of people whose staple food of choice is corn - Mexicans, most famously. Americans eat much mo...
Our brains constitute only 2.5 percent of our weight yet consumer 20 percent of our energy when we’re resting.
Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.
People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.
Perhaps what most commends cooking to me is that it offers a powerful corrective [...] To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of dis...
Possibly none at all: it’s a fallacy to assume that whatever is is that way for a good Darwinian reason. Just because a desire or practice is widespread or universal doesn’t necessarily mean it confer...
Psilocybes gave our hominid ancestors access to realms of supernatural power, catalyzed the emergence of human self-reflection, and brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated...
Queen of Night is as close to black as a flower gets, though in fact it is a dark and glossy maroonish purple. Its hue is so dark, however, that it appears to draw more light into itself than it refle...
REGARD NONTRADITIONAL FOODS WITH SKEPTICISM.
Ralph Waldo Emerson crossing a wintry New England commons in Nature: Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I becom...
Real food is alive and there for it should eventually die.
Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which ma...
Sigmund Freud wrote that there is nothing of which we are more certain than the feeling of our self, our own ego. Yet it is difficult to be quite so certain that anyone else possesses consciousness, m...
Since nutrients, as compared with foods, are invisible and therefore slightly mysterious, it falls to the scientists (and to the journalists through whom the scientists reach the public) to explain th...
So what exactly would an ecological detective set loose in an American supermarket discover, were he to trace the items in his shopping cart all the way back to the soil? The notion began to occupy me...
Sugar was a rarity in eighteenth century America. Even after cane plantations were planted in the Caribbean, it remained a luxury good beyond the reach of most Americans...It wasn't until late in the...
The Johns Hopkins experiment shows—proves—that under controlled, experimental conditions, psilocybin can occasion genuine mystical experiences. It uses science, which modernity trusts, to undermine mo...
The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but health is simply not one of them, because it is...
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