Newton's chicken : science in the kitchen : a menu which stimulates the taste buds, an appetite for scientific knowledge and the love of reading / Massimiano Bucchi, University of Trento, Italy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bucchi, Massimiano, 1970- author.

Series:

World Scientific series on science communication ; v. 2.

World scientific series on science communication ; volume 2

Standardized Title:

Il pollo di Newton. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Science--History.

Science.

History.

Cooking--History.

Cooking.

Science--Miscellanea.

Cooking--Miscellanea.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2021]

Summary:

"A highly rigorous, yet original and entertaining book that explores the connection between food and science. Why has science forcefully entered the kitchen from a certain moment in history? Why do scientists often use images and metaphors drawn from gastronomy? What is the common thread that connects scientific experiments to mouth-watering recipes? What has futurist cooking got in common with molecular gastronomy? Experiments with coffee, controversies over beer and chocolate recipes guarded as if they were secret patents are the ingredients of this original, surprising account of the intersections between gastronomy and research, between laboratories and kitchens"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Starter, Followed By First Course: Cookery as Science, and Science as Cookery: from Socrates to Cold Fusion

Starter: Mayonnaise, Science and Women

Cookery as Science: Or how Liebig stirred up housewives against doctors and chemists

Science as Cookery: or how a revolution in geology risked being mistaken for a minestrone

Cold Fusion or Whipped Cream?

In the Kitchen Science Becomes More "Human" (and Fun)

From Science a la carte to Take-away Science?: Medicine and cookery according to Socrates

MAIN COURSE: The Science of Chicken

To Die for Science: Bacon's Chicken

The Enlightenment Philosophers' Chicken

Chicken and Children First: Pasteur's chickens, or how discoveries sometimes happen when scientists are on holiday

The Chicken that Newton Did Not Eat: The scientist's ascetic body

Eating Chicken before an Audience: Science in public and the body of the leader

Metaphorical and Epistemological Chickens

Other Birds: Redi's peacock, Benjamin Franklin and the economists' turkeys (very similar to Bertrand Russell's chicken)

Drinks On The Side: Beer, Wine, Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and as Many Controversies as You Like

Beer, Reason and Work According to Benjamin Franklin

Beer, Bacteria and Beetroot: Louis Pasteur's fermenting science

A Sip of Coffee, and One Sip of Controversy

Tea vs. Coffee: Or why kings should not be involved in clinical tests

Who Invented Milk Chocolate?: And who discovered hot water?

Freezing Water, a Piece of Rubber: Richard Feynman and the press (stir well, serve chilled)

Dessert: A Taste of Science (and Society) From Brillat-Savarin to Molecular Cooking via Futuristic Cooking

Culinary Science According to Brillat-Savarin

Science in the Kitchen According to Pellegrino Artusi: Or the importance of scientific celebrities

"Abbasso la Pastasciutta" (Enough with Pasta)!: Science and technology in futurist cooking

The Birth of Molecular Cooking: Or how a meeting between a teacher and a physicist who dreamt of a winter equivalent of the ice-cream cone, brought scientists and cooks to the same table

Molecular Cooking: Science as an inspiration or as a "safe-haven investment"?

Digestif: Ways of interpreting the relationship between science and cooking.

Notes:

"Originally published in Italian as Il Pollo di Newton: La scienza in cucina, 2013 Ugo Guanda S.p.A., Parma"--Title page verso.

"English text translated by Tania Aragona" -- title page verso.

Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bucchi, Massimiano, 1970- Newton's chicken

ISBN:

9789811225444

9811225443

OCLC:

1190850357

Publisher Number:

99986123795