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Trick or truth?
The craze for the ketogenic diet has now gone global. However, its credo “sugar is dead, long live fat” seems partly counterintuitive.
Trick or truth?
The press has revealed a taste of the future, where a clever cocktail of electronics will change water into wine and trick our senses. Fancy giving it a try?
Trick or truth?
It seems reasonable to assume that all containers labelled as ‘bio-based’ can be thrown away with our green waste. Sheer fallacy or a good habit?
In the kitchen
Emulsions have long since been one of our favourite kinds of food. They are a blend of two liquids that would normally not mix together. Two great classics of our culinary heritage illustrate this perfectly.
In the kitchen
Frozen delicacies are not a modern invention: the first iced desserts appeared in China in 3000 BCE, while the first sorbet machines arrived on the market in 1872.
In the kitchen
Sugars are part of our everyday lives and are our main source of energy. Sometimes referred to as carbohydrates, they can either be simple or complex, such as the starch contained in bananas.
In the kitchen
Milk has been part of a symbiotic relationship between humans and animals spanning thousands of years. Consumption of milk is closely linked to domestication and has enabled humans to create a wide range of consumer products in all sorts of regional variations across the world.
In the kitchen
A breakfast without cheese, yoghurt or coffee with frothed milk? Shivani Bothra begins her day with entirely different foods.
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