June 2025 – Food Science Institute
2 posts published by James Cooper during June 2025| Food Science Institute
2 posts published by James Cooper during June 2025| Food Science Institute
This delicious, but fairly simple, recipe is derived from one by Julia Child in MTAOFC vol1. We make it as a “company dish” all the time, and the results are really impressive, considering you can …| Food Science Institute
Remember ice cream sodas? No? Long before there were ice cream scoop shops, there were soda fountains, where they made a lot of more elaborate ice cream dishes, including ice cream sodas. They are …| Food Science Institute
Sly Bandit has been operating in their South Wilton location (14 Danbury Rd) since last summer, and we finally got a chance to visit it last Sunday night. The ground floor is the actual brewery: the pub is upstairs. And yes, there is an elevator. The beer list changes almost daily: here is the list … Continue reading Sly Bandit — Wilton’s own brew pub→| Food Science Institute
Last night, A Taste of Wilton returned, sponsored by the Wilton Chamber of Commerce, with restaurants and vendors displaying their foods for tasting in the lobby of the very new Riverside apartment building at 141 Danbury Rd. (We swear it wasn’t there yesterday!) We took quite a passel of pictures of most of the exhibits, … Continue reading A Taste of Wilton returns→| Food Science Institute
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Pirates! The Penzance Musical opened April 4th. We saw it last night, April 16, and it will run until July 27. Rather than producing Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, the producers elected to create a “re-imagining” of Pirates, setting it in New Orleans in 1880. The new dialog … Continue reading The Pirates of Why?→| Food Science Institute
I recently received Lady Bird Johnson’s recipe for Buttermilk Pie from History by Mail and had to try it out. This pie was made regularly by their private chef Zephyr Wright in the White House, but the recipe is from Lady Bird’s family. If you look around the internet for buttermilk pie recipes, you will … Continue reading Lady Bird’s Buttermilk Pie→| Food Science Institute
This recipe was the winner of a contest for the best peanut butter cookies. The main ingredient is “all-natural” peanut butter, which is chosen not for any imagined health benefit, but because it is more liquid than conventional peanut butters because the oils are not hydrogenated. Thus, the batter comes together quite smoothly. • 4 … Continue reading Chewy peanut butter cookies→| Food Science Institute
Crumpets are a sort of cousin to English muffins, but a lot easier to make. They are sort of a spongy bread that is best served hot with butter, jam or even Marmite. They are pretty simple to make …| Food Science Institute
As we explained in our previous article, cacio e pepe is a beloved Roman dish made of pasta, pecorino romano cheese, some pasta water and pepper. We explained the research of Giacomo Bertolucci et. el., who determined that most recipes don’t have enough starch in their pasta water to prevent the cheese from clumping. Instead, … Continue reading Cacio e pepe made simpler→| Food Science Institute
The classic Italian dish cacio e pepe is just grated cheese on hot pasta served with pepper. The cheese is usually Pecorino Romano (sometimes, misnamed “Romano”) and the pasta can be tonnarelli or …| Food Science Institute
Bonnie Garmus’s novel Lessons in Chemistry has been wildly popular since its 2022 publication, and praised by nearly everybody. The story of Elizabeth Zott, a Master’s student at UCLA who was attac…| Food Science Institute
You probably know that I am not a fan of Bonnie Garmus’ error riddled book, but I thought maybe they would clean up all that mish-mosh in the TV series. After all, there are probably hundreds of pe…| Food Science Institute
