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There are a lot of food books out there. The vast majority are of course cookbooks, collections of recipes. Some with an educational aspect, others purely for entertainment, and yet again others even take some time to discuss the science…
Making food at scale vs making food at home, presents a set of challenges. How do you store your ingredients? What does it take to ensure even baking in a huge oven? How do you produce freshly smoked meat on…
Looking to improve your cookie baking game? Want to really understand how to improve your cookies? If so, we might have a great book tip for you! Why do you buy a new cookbook? To gather recipes? Because it looks…
We recently got the chance to talk to Bryan Quoc Le, fellow food scientist and author of 150 Food Science Questions Answered (affiliate link). We had a great conversation about our passions for food science and about Bryan’s journey to…
Have you ever dreamed of developing and selling your own kitchen tools? Have you never been fully satisfied with the tools that are already out there? Do you see plenty of opportunities to tweak and improve existing designs? If so,…
Before I even started watching the Great British Bake Off (and got hooked quite quickly) I got a cookbook from one of the participants of this great British baking tv-show. Someone who had discovered the magic of the Great British…
“Chetna is the queen of spice”. All throughout her journey through the British Bake Off competition Chetna Makan manages to pull off great flavour combinations. In her crispy lentil kachori “the volume of spices (…) was frankly staggering, that’s lovely”.…
Inventions rarely ever come all by themselves. You can’t invent a can, if there is no tin, you can’t invent beer without there being vessels to hold it and you can’t invent bread if you don’t have grains. What we…
Creating original, good dessert recipes isn’t easy. There are so many brownies recipes out there already, the same for a cupcake or ice cream recipe. Finding a book that really teaches you something new if you’ve got your basics covered…
Reading a cookbook from authors passionate about their topic, who write a cookbook about a topic because it’s what they do day in day out is always great. These books ‘shine’ more than those in which the topic is just…
We don’t talk about if often here, how to make sure that the food you make, is actually liked and desired by your customers. Whether that’s your family eating a meal, or millions of people buying your food. Instead, we…
Some cookbooks you buy because you like the author’s cooking style (e.g. Plenty), others you buy to learn more about a specific topic (Hello, my name is ice cream), others you buy to open doors to a world you didn’t…