Did the Sauvignon Blanc in your glass, which was so refreshing in the past, make you pucker like a Victoria’s Secret model? Did the over-oaked
Category: Food Science
“Crying Wolf” over Red Meat
One of my pet peeves is how science is reported in the press. Sensationalism sells. Eyeballs are all that matter, so we get disturbing and
Who Owns A Recipe? Revisiting The Case of the Stolen Egg
The episode has receded from the front pages, reporters are no longer camped on doorsteps, and Attorneys General have disbanded their grand juries, but the
Another Attack on Wine Expertise
The recent article by Hayes and Pickering in the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (behind a paywall) has gotten a lot of attention from
The Future Is Now
I’m disappointed that I never got my jetpack, promised to denizens of the future in the animated sitcom The Jetson’s from 1962. But as a
The Sounds of Sweetness
Studies investigating the effect of music on the taste of food and wine keep proliferating. In this recent report, test subjects, when asked to match