Molecular gastronomy

David Cole Maya Ben-Hayim Matthew Karp 2/20/18 Chem 11 Block A Fake egg project Molecular gastronomy is applying chemistry to cooking. The point of molecular gastronomy is to surprise the subconscious mind with food. Some examples of molecular gastronomy are fake caviar and spaghetti made out of fruit. Some tools that people use while doing molecular gastronomy are liquid nitrogen and food dehydrator and syringes. By using chemistry, chefs are learning new ways to make dishes for their customers. We are using molecular gastronomy to make a dessert that looks like an egg. To make the dessert egg we are using milk, agar, vanilla yogurt, mango, sugar, calcium lactate, and sodium alginate as our ingredients. agar is a jelly-like substance that…

Heston Blumenthal is a big name in the culinary world. He is known with for signature cooking philosophy, which is called molecular gastronomy. This is certainly not an easy term to be explained with just a few lines, but in short, it refers to a cross-over between a kitchen and a chemistry lab. That is where Heston’s inspiration starts, and how he integrates creativity and science into his cooking. There will be an insightful elaboration about how Heston’s success can be driven by personality…

dairy. According to scientists in “Cowspiracy”, with the earth coming to such a dangerous place, removing meat and dairy from our diets, could potentially mean saving the planet. Cowspiracy claims that by decreasing the amount of meat and dairy we eat everyday, we can significantly reduce for the unnatural amount of cows and other livestock that are killing our planet. Cowspiracy also claims that livestock consume a significant amount more water than hydraulic fracture mining. In fact, every…

products. Convenience engender human autonomy become confined and the disappearance of ‘vigour knowledge and competence’ as people as dependence on the convenience products (Belasco, 2008, p. 56). From the value, communication, and the material of convenience shows direct connection with cooking that communicates more negative effects, which is contrasting with gastronomy. It is evident that convenience food is directly linked to the home cooking practices, as it is…

A lot of people don’t even know what GMO’s are? Either they don’t care to know, or just too naive to figure out exactly what GMO’s are. I believe GMO’s are bad for humans, unless you’re sick which I’m not, I see GMO’s as a bad thing. GMO’s or “genetically modified organisms” these could range from animals to plants that have been genetically altered with DNA from plants, animals, bacteria, and viruses. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) advises medical physician’s to…

Plasmid Interference in Regulation of the Type III Secretion System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen, commonly colonizes patients with cystic fibrosis (1) and contributes to a sizeable proportion of antibiotic-resistant nosocomial infections (2). Acute P. aeruginosa infections are characterized by the expression of the type III secretion system (T3SS) comprised of a needle-like apparatus used to inject exoenzymes into neighboring cells (1, 3). These…

The first time I learned about structural biology was when I took Comprehensive Biochemistry I during my senior year at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. What was intriguing was how quickly I learned the concepts, and how easy it was for me to see conformational changes in three-dimensional space. I have always been a visual-oriented person, and until senior year of college I found that it was hard to find areas of research in biochemistry that utilize a person’s ability to analyze…

Gene Therapy: The concept of gene therapy emerged in the 1970s. The basic premise of gene therapy is using DNA enclosed in a vector as a therapeutic treatment for diseases. In the decades after it was conceptualized, many clinical trials of gene therapy were developed but stalled in phase I or phase II. During the 90s, only 1% of gene therapy trials made it to phase III and none of them went past phase III. The excitement for gene therapy was reduced when a participant of a clinical trial died…

Introduction and Social Relevance Our economy is ever-growing and evolving, this can be problematic for the agricultural crops that will have difficulty providing the world as the demand for food increases. Genetic modification is the use of biotechnology techniques to change the genes of an organism (AGRIC, 2015)
In Australia unless the Australian Gene Technology Regulator has concluded the Genetically Modified Organism, abbreviated as GMO is safe to human health as well as the environment it…

Think of the last time you purposely inflicted a bodily harm upon yourself, or a time when you put your own body at risk. Chances are you can’t think off a time when that happened, but what if that was false? Research shows that you may be harming your body by simply eating food. What are these foods you might ask? These harmful foods go by the name of Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMO’s. These relatively new organisms produced by mutating the natural genes are understudied and are in most…