Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking by Simon Quellen Field

Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking

Simon Quellen Field

237 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
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When you're cooking, you're a chemist Every time you follow or modify a recipe, you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes wit...

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