Food Science
Southwest Black Bean Cakes – Yum!
So this is a great weeknight meal option – we made it earlier this week and it was delicious! Pan frying these with a little bit of oil turns the outside nice and crispy, and using cornmeal as a binder helps add to that crunch. The big pluses for this recipe are the “pantry-raid factor” [...]
This Grapefuit Juice is Harshing My Buzz!
How weird is this? It turns out that grapefruit juice can directly or indirectly interact in important ways with a number of medications. This is especially important since grapefruit juice is consumed by approximately one fifth of Americans for breakfast – a time of the day when medications also are commonly taken. Grapefruit juice blocks [...]
Yet Another Reason to Rethink Bottled Water
New research from the Pacific Institute estimates that bottled water is up to 2000 times more energy-intensive than tap water. Similarly, bottled water that requires long-distance transport is far more energy-intensive than bottled water produced and distributed locally. Indeed, when all the sums were done, it seems the annual consumption of bottled water in the [...]
Do NOT Try This At Home!
So someone thought it’d be a good idea (for posterity?) to video document himself eating the world’s hottest pepper, the Bhut Jolokia pepper. It’s about 100 times the heat of a jalapeno, or roughly 12 times the heat of a habanero pepper. Needless to say, don’t do this! The poor fool may never taste again… [...]
