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Kitchen Chemistry: Combining Chemistry and Culinary Delights for the Holidays
Like that old tree in your attic, do your holiday meals need a little sprucing? Tis the season for chemistry and ACS Webinars is whipping up an extra helping of holiday cheer!
Free Webinar – Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010, 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Food and Wine Chemistry Group
A foodies group on the ACS Network. Discuss the chemistry behind your favorite flavors. What makes up the complex aroma of your favorite delicacy? What chemical changes occur that transform milk into cheese and grapes to wine? And of course, let's not forget coffee and chocolate. There's a lot to talk about.
Chemistry in the Kitchen
A new field called molecular gastronomy investigates the science behind cooking. Scientists and chefs try to understand, for example, whether adding ingredients in a recipe needs to follow a specific order, or why temperature should be lowered or increased over the course of a meal preparation.
Source: ChemMatters
Coffee: Brain Booster to Go
Many studies have shown coffee will improve your mood and increase your mental alertness, cognition, and reaction speed—even your ability to do simple math problems. Will it make you smarter? You wish! There is absolutely no evidence linking coffee with increased brain power—just alert use of your brain.
Source: ChemMatters
The Fate of Calcium Carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a chemical found in eggshells, seashells, and many other materials. Observe how calcium carbonate reacts with common liquids.
Source: Science for Kids
The Chemistry of Barbecue
A video on the dos and don’ts of cooking your favorite foods on the barbecue grill. The video features Shirley O. Corriher, an award-winning author whose latest book is BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking, and Sara J. Risch, Ph.D., noted food chemist and founder and principal in the consulting firm, Science by Design.
Source: Bytesize Science
Thanksgiving and Chemistry: What's the connection?
Why do people eat mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving Day but not mashed paper towels? That’s not such an odd question from a chemistry standpoint because potato and paper are almost as similar as two peas in a pod in terms of the carbohydrates they contain.
Source: Bytesize Science
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