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Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Cooking
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Art of Cooking is evolving fast in this 21st century. New food products are being designed with the help of molecular technology, genetic discoveries or space research before arriving in our kitchens. For example, here is a Pravda article which says that NASA is preparing sandwiches which will still be edible after seven years. Companies like Kraft are also using nanotechnology to create food products tailored to users' needs. This is a booming market and, according to Associated Press, dozens of universities in the U.S. are offering degrees in culinology, attracting creative students in their food and science programs."
Hah! I can make sandwiches that are edible RIGHT NOW!
I better put that in my resume... brb.
but will they run linux?
Be careful eating old sandwiches. Homer tried that once and got so sick he couldn't go to Duff Gardens.
I'm a big tall mofo.
NASA is preparing sandwiches which will still be inedible after seven years. And they borrowed this technology from my local high school. They should coat the shuttle with these monstrosities.
Good for seven years? Does that mean the developed a twinkie sandwich?
"What's that black cracker?"
"A tomato." (crunch)
Starkle, starkle, little twink.
this is obviously based on failed experiments by the airlines.
-- Fugacity: Confusing chemists since 1908
In Futurama, Fry eats one of these sandwiches ..
I suppose this is were the nanotechnology comes into play..
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
Roland Piquepaille with Herbed Tomato Sauce
INGREDIENTS:
250 pounds Roland Piquepaille
1 cup article excerpts
1/8 teaspoon finely chopped original contributions.
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PREPARATION:
Wash Roland Piquepaille; pat dry. Season with 1 cup copy pasted excerpts from article. Mix in 1/8th teaspoon finely chopped original comments. Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a large skillet or Dutch oven and cook until evenly brown. Link to blog and submit to popular techie website.
Best served hot. Serves ~90,000.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Try thousand year old eggs. Those will put feathers on your chest ;-)
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
Mmmmmm. Seven year old sandwiches!
Rich sauces and meats are essential to learning how to be a chef. In fact, the chef-instructors get pissed off when they get a student who's a vegetarian or health nut who refuses to try sauces and meat.
I had one French chef come to me one day--he was furious because he had several vegetarians in his class and said "goddammit what the hell are zey doing at a cooking zchool and they don't eat ze fucking meat? How ze hell are zey going to be ze goddamn chef?"
I had one French chef come to me one day--he was furious because he had several vegetarians in his class and said "goddammit what the hell are zey doing at a cooking zchool and they don't eat ze fucking meat? How ze hell are zey going to be ze goddamn chef?"
Bah, your French chef friend just hates our freedoms. I salute these patriots and I have a feeling that their their democracy-loving Freedom Cuisine will be the newest rage.
GEFAC
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
I worked at a convenience store when I was younger - on one of the shelves we discovered a twinkee that was 6 years old. Still wrapped in plastic, the thing was as hard as a rock (literally.)
We threw it as hard as we could at the arborite countertop. The arborite chipped, but the twinkee was unscathed.
We hit it with a hammer. Repeatedly. It wouldn't break.
We debated selling them to the military as a new armor-piercing shell.
I believe you misspelled 'Whitecastle'. ;)
-- I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. It's not my fault that life sucks so much. --
I'm sorry to say this, but for world leaders, Americans might just have the poorest gastonimical sense on this planet...
I can tell you've never visited England...
It's "no one," not "noone." Who the hell is noone anyway?
I gave it to my niece who kicked it around for a couple of days in the back yard - it didn't look much worse for wear after that either.
That's funny.... when I used to give my nephew old, spoiled food to play around with, my sister responded by not having me babysit anymore.
"For example, here is a Pravda article which says that NASA is preparing sandwiches which will still be edible after seven years."
They just need to make the sandwich out of Twinkie-matter and it'll last indefinitely.
It has been shown that dietary aluminum does not cause alzheimers, but that alzheimers leads to a buildup of aluminum in the brain.
This is like saying obesity causes diabetes instead of saying high blood sugar causes obesity AND diabetes.
This is like saying that tabacco products don't cause cancer, your genes do. This is like saying all heart attacks are genetic. You simply pass responsibility to the victim, its the victims fault for having bad genes. It's the victims fault for getting cancer. I bet if you were the lawyer fighting for Vioxx you'd blame the victims for taking the pill their doctors told them to take.
Corporations know their food causes cancer, they arent innocent. Corporations like Kraft LIKE killing people, its their job. They have been killing people efficiently for years, and its legal because you defend them by making it seem like its some accident that the french fries cause cancer due to how its heated. Well duh, learn a new way to make french fries. This is as silly as saying "Well if you smoke you deserve cancer!"
No one deserves cancer. Tabacco companies should be REQUIRED to release healthy products. If anyone can legally kill people by releasing poison food, well the nano technology is going to kill billions of people.
I know I won't be touching any of this nano food, I've learned not to touch ANYTHING processed and unless I can see its an apple and know what farm it came from I'm not eating it. The equation is simple.
Eat natural organic food and live, or eat processed food and die.
Consume organic products and live, or consume artificial products and die.
These are the options, live healthy or die young. So now we have to teach children to be paranoid about food. Kids growing up today wont even be able to try junkfood mainly because the junkfood only gets more toxic. Kraft will make foods so toxic that eating it once a year will give you cancer, and when this happens millions of loyal Kraft fans will die of cancer and society will connect the dots.
You buy from Phillip Morris and you die from Phillip Morris. You buy from Kraft and you die from Kraft. You buy the wrong goods from the wrong people and your health is sabatoged.