Category - How Food is Made

How Food Works
Understanding Food Production
Understanding Recipes
jaggery, panela, evaporated cane sugar
How Food is Made

Jaggery (evaporated cane sugar) manufacturing

Humans have been sweetening their foods for thousands of years. Whether it’s through honey, natural sugar syrups such as maple syrup, or by using sugar beet or cane sugar, it’s all done to sweeten our dishes...

January 3, 2020
8 min read
stack of brown butter almond tuiles
Understanding Recipes

Brown butter is a flavor bomb for cookies

You can make a great cookie with sugar, butter and flour (that is, shortbread), you can make a delicate crispy almond tuile by adding some egg and almonds. But, your tuile (and a lot of other cookies as well!) become so...

December 18, 2019
5 min read
chicago style deep dish pizza
How Food Works

Science of Chicago Deep Dish Pizza

If you’ve never been to Chicago, chances are small you have come across Chicago-style deep dish pizza. It’s a pretty regional phenomenon and personally I haven’t seen it outside of the city, whereas in...

November 3, 2019
8 min read
decaffeinated coffee benas
How Food is Made

How coffee beans are processed

Long before that steaming cup of (Turkish?) coffee stands in front of you, or even before you buy that bag of coffee beans, your coffee beans have been through quite a bit. From plant to farmer to processor and finally...

October 22, 2019
8 min read
pie made with brick pastry
How Food is Made

Science of Brick pastry & Warqa

The more you learn about different cuisines, the more similarities you can see between them. So, when recently learning about brick pastry, which is a very thin dough cooked on a flat griddle, I quickly learned that a...

November 29, 2019
4 min read
bowl of choux pastry puffs with craquelin chocolate
Understanding Recipes

How craquelin on choux pastry works

Have you ever seen those profiteroles or cream puffs with a speckled decorated top? The pattern on top almost looks like dried out earth, with a lot of cracks and spaces in between the darker spots of decoration? Note...

November 12, 2019
6 min read