When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe, you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes with substrates, and nurture desired microbial life while suppressing harmful bacteria and fungi. And unlike in a laboratory, you can eat your experiments to verify your hypotheses. In Culinary Reactions, author Simon Quellen Field turns measuring cups, stovetop burners, and mixing bowls into graduated cylinders, Bunsen burners, and beakers. How does altering the ratio of flour, sugar, yeast, salt, butter, and water affect how high bread rises? Why is whipped cream made with nitrous oxide rather than the more common carbon dioxide? And why does Hollandaise sauce call for “clarified” butter? This easy-to-follow primer even includes recipes to demonstrate the concepts being discussed, including: &· Whipped Creamsicle Topping—a foam &· Cherry Dream Cheese—a protein gel &· Lemonade with Chameleon Eggs—an acid indicator

60 well-known chemists provide favorite recipes. Includes biographies.

Sie suchen den geeigneten Arbeitskreis für Ihren Postdoc-Aufenthalt? Oder suchen das optimale Geschenk für Ihre Freunde, die Chemiker sind? Vielleicht kochen Sie einfach gerne und suchen neue Rezepte? Ja? Dann ist dieses Buch für Sie gemacht! Dieses erste "Who is Who" der Organischen Chemie zeigt eindeutig, dass berühmte Wissenschaftler nicht nur im Labor, sondern auch am Herd in der Küche gerne und exzellent kochen. Servieren Sie beispielsweise einfache Köstlichkeiten wie Fisch mit Pommes a la K. C. Nicolaou. Mehr als 50 Lieblingsrezepte verschiedener Schwierigkeitsgrade berühmter Organiker wie "Einsame Suppe" (Evans), Toskanisches Wildschwein (Waldmann) oder "Dulce de Leche" (Vollhardt), ihre Biographien und ihre ausführlich recherchierten Forschungsinteressen finden Sie in dieser unterhaltsamen und informativen Zusammenstellung. Eine exquisite Delikatesse für jeden, der gerne kocht, gerne gut ißt und die Chemie liebt.

Written as a textbook with an online laboratory manual for students and adopting faculties, this work is intended for non-science majors / liberal studies science courses and will cover a range of scientific principles of food, cooking and the science of taste and smell. Chapters include: The Science of Food and Nutrition of Macromolecules; Science of Taste and Smell; Milk, Cream, and Ice Cream, Metabolism and Fermentation; Cheese, Yogurt, and Sour Cream; Browning; Fruits and Vegetables; Meat, Fish, and Eggs; Dough, Cakes, and Pastry; Chilies, Herbs, and Spices; Beer and Wine; and Chocolate, Candy and Other Treats. Each chapters begins with biological, chemical, and /or physical principles underlying food topics, and a discussion of what is happening at the molecular level. This unique approach is unique should be attractive to chemistry, biology or biochemistry departments looking for a new way to bring students into their classroom. There are no pre-requisites for the course and the work is appropriate for all college levels and majors.

Kitchen Chemistry takes you inside the scientific world of your own kitchen. Easy and safe experiments introduce readers to the simple science that every cook and baker should know.

"What's Cooking, Uncle Sam?, based on an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC, is a collection of records exploring the history of food policy in the United States"--