Swans on Tea

3 Minute Brownie. Well, 4 or 5 minutes with the mixing and all.
I can neither confirm nor deny the veracity of this recipe.

Brooklyn Dem Felix Ortiz wants to ban use of salt in New York restaurants
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food,” the bill reads.
Now, I know I’ve tried to make the case that food preparation, as practiced by most people, is [...]

The reproduction of donuts

The Nobel prize for Food Science
It must be cartoonsday.

If the Möbius bagel wasn’t enough, here’s an animation of how to cut a toroid into four linked pieces: Tetrabagelectomy
Update: Now there’s the octobagel

Researchers use infrared cameras to determine taste quality of Japanese beef
At a taste testing held by the two Gifu institutes on Jan. 29th, twenty-four nutritionists, livestock industry experts, and consumers were asked to rank two samples of super high-quality Hida-gyu, boiled quickly in a Japanese hotpot, on ten points, according to the Yomiuri. Of the [...]

Give them pizza, apparently. They’ll starve.
The perfect way to slice a pizza
They can’t think about sharing a pizza, for example, without falling headlong into the mathematics of how to slice it up. “We went to lunch together at least once a week,” says Mabry, recalling the early 1990s when they were both at Louisiana [...]

Physics Buzz: When chemistry dunces bake
What about my deflated cakes? I remember baking a very sad birthday cake that cooked but didn’t rise. Incredibly, a detail as tiny as what baking powder I used could have been the culprit. While baking soda reacts immediately, baking powder usually makes bubbles twice—once when cool and once [...]

Mathematically Correct Breakfast
It is not hard to cut a bagel into two equal halves which are linked like two links of a chain.
You may be compelled to ask why anyone would figure out how to do such a thing. I understand why, but cannot explain.
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Something to consider: the nutritional content of a cubic [...]

Cocktail Party Physics: taster’s choice
With all due respect to Tom, cooking, done properly, is not about blindly following recipes: it involves a lot of prediction and testing by experiment to get a dish just right. The recipes just give you the basic framework.
I think the key phrase here is “done properly,” which I suspect applies [...]

How to make a square egg

Aisle placements affect grocery sales, research shows
Using the cross-category items of chips and soda, the researchers found that stores placing the items facing each other in the same aisle increased weekly sales of those items by more than 9 percent. In contrast, moving the chips and soda one aisle away from each other resulted in [...]