Category - Further learning

If you’re interested in food, and science, you probably want to learn even more than what we have on our website or try your hand at some of those great techniques. That’s why we collect all sorts of opportunities for further learning, whether those are books, courses or podcasts, if we think it’ll be of help for you, we’ll discuss it!

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Further learning

8 Helpful Books for Bread Baking Scientists

Learning how to bake bread is not something you finish within a few days. Instead, the more you do it, the more you realize there still is so much to learn, which, being a scientist by training, is exactly why I find...

July 13, 2018
9 min read

Life of a Food Scientist – Interview with Helen Mitchell

Using your understanding of respiration of vegetables to improve their shelf life, making a better cheese by knowing how casein proteins work, or coming up with a new way to bake bread. These are all things food...

April 24, 2018
10 min read
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Further learning

Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi – Book Review

After having tested and tried the cookbook Sweet from Yotam Ottolenghi and only ending up with great food, I decided it was time to buy one of his savoury cookbooks. I decided on Plenty (affiliate link) since I read...

February 22, 2018
4 min read
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Further learning

Greek by George Calombaris – Book Review

Part of being a food scientist/science enthusiast, is to try out new foods, either when eating out, or in your own kitchen. Despite the fact that the internet is full of recipes, I still tend to like using cookbooks for...

January 4, 2018
5 min read