I want you to like science.
Science in America today is a lot of CSI and House and incomprehensible nerds and fights about evolution and climate change and hospital rooms and different health advice each week in the newspapers and is the Large Hadron Collider going to suck the planet into a black hole?
I’d rather science be simpler, like: ‘Hey, that’s cool. I wonder how it works. Ah, there I go thinking like a scientist.’ I can see the ad now: Science, it’s just like curiosity.
Considering curiosity and science, eating came to mind. Everyone eats. And a lot of people must be a bit curious about eating. I sure am. (Eating questions in my head right now: Why when I smell lemons am I transported to my childhood backyard? Why does having breakfast make me less hungry between lunch and dinner? How do vegetables grow out of just a seed, soil, water, and sunlight? What are the nutritional differences between light meat and dark meat?)
Eatologies is an eating blog that answers curiosity as best it can scientifically. I expect to talk about:
- How tasting, smelling, growing, digesting, cooking work
- How science does and doesn’t work
- Current news and research about eating
- Recipes postmortems
Full disclosure, I am a scientist but not an expert on food science, cooking, tasting, smelling, nutrition, science writing, grammar, nor blogging etiquette. I will be as accurate and accessible as I can be. Comment away when I screw up.
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