Cooking & Baking

elleng

(130,964 posts) Wed Nov 22, 2017, 06:36 PM Nov 2017

A Helping of Science With Your Thanksgiving Dinner

Biology. Chemistry. Physics. It’s all there on your plate. Take a moment to appreciate it before you dig in.

'Happy Thanksgiving! You’re about to enjoy one of the most wonderful meals of the year with family and friends. And you’re probably looking forward to a plate full of food that you, or someone you care about, spent a lot of time preparing.

Or maybe they ordered it from a caterer. That’s fine, we don’t judge.

As you give thanks for the bounty of this meal and the company you share it with, spend some time thinking about some of the scientific facts that made your meal possible. Biology. Chemistry. Physics. It’s all there on your plate.

Here are some things we’ve learned about your Thanksgiving meal. If all else fails, these facts might make for nice conversation starters with that step-cousin you only see once a year.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/science/thanksgiving-dinner-science.html?

1 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

A Helping of Science With Your Thanksgiving Dinner (Original Post) elleng Nov 2017 OP

This reminds me of what the Professor of Biochemistry told me when I started work in his lab. Yonnie3 Nov 2017 #1

Yonnie3

(17,443 posts)

1. This reminds me of what the Professor of Biochemistry told me when I started work in his lab.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Nov 22, 2017, 07:03 PM

Nov 2017

Although it is a bit of topic drift, here it is:

He said "can you cook?" followed by "We just follow recipes here." In this lab, that was working on lipid metabolism, I did things akin to making soap, gravy and butter. The process and the chemistry were the same.

Reply to this discussion