Pickling

Salt is used for a wide variety of purposes in every society every day. This is common knowledge. However, salt is actually more vital to human history and existence than most people think. Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History tells the story of human suffering, greed, enterprise and conquest in a surprising way: by telling the story of salt. As Kurlansky says in his introduction, “Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning…

Compare and Contrast between Old and New Food Technologies. Comment. Food Technology: It is the branch of food science that deals with the food production process. It deals with the Selection, preservation, processing and packaging of the food. In early age, scientist research into food technology that was the concentration of food preservation. For example: Louis Pasteur, a renowned scientist, researched on the spoilage of vine. In 1864, he describes how to avoid spoilage of vine. It was his…

Have you ever wondered how the BBC faithfully recreates elaborate 19th Century table settings with such precision on TV shows like Queen Victoria and Doughton Abbey? Look no further than Isabella Beeton and her eponymously titled "Mrs. Beeton's Guide to Household Management" (BOHM) her encyclopedic tome dedicated to managing a Victorian household. She was the reigning Domestic Diva of her day. Food historians compare her to a 19th Century Martha Stewart. Not just in terms of the type of…

Coriander is a spice that comes from the seed of the cilantro plant. Though it was originally grown in Iran, coriander now grows wild over most of Western Asia and a Southern Europe. The earliest evidence of coriander is in Neolithic cave dwellings. King Tutankhamun's tomb is said to have contained flowers from the coriander plant. It was known to be grown in Greece, too, first starting in the early BCs. In early history, it was often used as a perfume. Coriander was taken to America in 1670 by…

Roughly about 50 percent of all produce in the United States is thrown away, and there is an estimated 70 billion pounds of food waste in America each year. Americans sure do waste a tremendous amount of food. Wasted food is also the single biggest occupant in American landfills. Globally, about 800 million people suffer starvation, but only ten years ago the total was almost 1 billion. A drop of nearly 200 million in the number of chronically hungry people should encourage anyone committed to…

Rain is already slightly acidic originally and has a pH of 6 without being introduced to acids in our atmosphere.This is because as rain falls it combines with carbon dioxide CO2 to form carbonic acid H2CO3 which is a very weak acid and completely harmless in our environment. When acids are introduced into the rainwater it can lower the pH of rain to 3, this is very acidic according to the pH scale. The lowering of pH is 10-fold. This means that lowering the pH from 6 to 3 you must do 10x10x10…

the dangerous border crossing. In later years, the story shifted to the challenges of corpse disposal while on a trip abroad. Moreover, there is a peculiar connection of “The Runaway Grandmother” to the legend of the Renaissance “jest” a story of pickling a corpse which was stolen and eaten by an unsuspecting Florentine according to Doyle. This argument is supported by a version of the legend where the grandmother is cremated, her ashes sent by mail, and was used by relatives as condiment in…

For much of human history, salt has been mined from the areas around dry lake beds and in deposits left after ancient seas dried up. These bodies of water all evaporated, leaving their crystallized salt deposits behind. Mined salt is sourced from these deposits. It differs from sea salt in that sea salt is taken from living oceans. While it is usually ground finely for sprinkling onto food as table salt, some of it is kept in a coarse and chunky form that is referred to as rock salt. Rock salt…

An important part of food is the implement used with which people eat. In modern day United States, the most common utensils regarding foodstuffs are forks, knives, and spoons. Forks have the longest, most adaptive past, changing from a simple prong or stick to the multi-pronged silverware currently in use. Forks are commonly used to transport food from the plate to the mouth, as well as hold substances still while being cut. In Rome, devices people now call “dinner-spikes” were used as the…

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this lab is to determine the percentage yield of the reaction between sodium bicarbonate and acetic acid. INTRODUCTION This lab demonstrates the double replacement / acid-base neutralization reaction between the reactants of two household cooking items, baking soda and vinegar, producing carbon dioxide, water, and sodium acetate. Baking soda is an odorless, powdered chemical compound called sodium bicarbonate (NaHCOз). NaHCOз is most commonly used in baking as a…