分类目录归档：food
I am a plant geneticist.
I study genes that make plants resistant to disease
and tolerant of stress.
In recent years,
millions of people around the world have come to believe
that there's something si
Yogi Berra, a US baseball player and philosopher, said,
"If we don't know where we're going, we might not get there."
Accumulating scientific knowledge is giving us greater insights,
greater clarity,
Translator: Ivana Korom Reviewer: Krystian Aparta
So I had this very interesting experience
five years ago.
You know, me and my husband, we were out grocery shopping,
as we do every other day,
but thi
In June of 2017,
I volunteered with a group at a local food pantry
on the south side of my home city
in Atlanta, Georgia.
It was a Friday afternoon,
the day of their weekly food giveaway.
And as I dro
Last year, I was living with this indigenous family in India.
One afternoon,
the young son was eating,
and at the sight of me, he quickly hid his curry behind his back.
It took a lot of persuasion to
Transcriber: Ivana Korom Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz
In the early months of the pandemic,
chef José Andrés circulated two photos
that have come to symbolize a modern American food crisis.
The first
French fries are delicious.
French fries with ketchup are a little slice of heaven.
The problem is it's basically impossible
to pour the exactly right amount.
We're so used to pouring ketchup that we
Where does bread get its fluffiness?
Swiss cheese its holes?
And what makes vinegar so sour?
These foods may taste completely different,
but all of these phenomena come from tiny organisms chowing do
Your Brain on Food
If you sucked all of the moisture out of your brain
and broke it down to its constituent nutritional content,
what would it look like?
Most of the weight of your dehydrated brain w
The most basic function of bodily fat is self-storage of food reserves.
In prehistoric times, natural selection favored genotypes
that could endure harsh conditions by stocking the most fat.
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