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.

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

Cooking with my mother-in-law

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Creativity is a quest

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Creativity with spices

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Emotions are crucial to food

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Experimentation in cooking

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Explaining thali

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Exploring the spice store

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist

Food is a composition

Nik Sharma, cookbook author & molecular biologist