Food

It may not be obvious when you take your first sip of coffee in the morning or bite into a juicy burger at lunch, but making food is as much science as it is art. Hear how basic ingredients are transformed by cooking methods, and natural chemical reactions define flavor while our Confluence storytellers chew the fat.


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Cooking is an art

Asma Khan, restaurateur & author

Creativity is personal

Asma Khan, restaurateur & author

Marrying old & new science

Asma Khan, restaurateur & author
Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist
Suze Kundu, nanochemist

The core of Indian cooking

Asma Khan, restaurateur & author
Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist
Suze Kundu, nanochemist

The tastiest chemical reactions

Asma Khan, restaurateur & author
Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist
Suze Kundu, nanochemist

All ingredients are chemicals

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Cooking is about chemicals

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Cooking is transformation

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Emotions are crucial to food

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Food is a composition

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Changing food with sound

Charles Spence, experimental psychologist

The geography of food

Charles Spence, experimental psychologist

What is taste?

Charles Spence, experimental psychologist

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