Cooking food is one of the activities that makes humanity unique. It's not just about what tastes good: advances in cooking technology have been a constant part of our progress, from the ability to ...

New scientific evidence suggests that everyday cooking methods may expose millions of Americans to hidden cancer-causing ...

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Davenport argues that cooking mostly with broth and water can slow the deleterious effects of ageing.Photograph: Ivan/Getty Images Dr Michelle Davenport says her grandmother is 95 and doesn’t have any ...

Quick-serve menus may start taking cues from the science lab as operators increasingly experiment with high-tech cooking methods like molecular gastronomy. Molecular gastronomy, which blends technical ...

Students flooded into the pristine white lab. The unadorned stove tops and cabinets looked more like an Ikea showroom than a classroom. To many, Science of Food and Cooking, frankly, seems like a blow ...

Our task was simple enough: Find the most frugal way to cook pasta, and explain the science behind it. But there was the Nobel laureate’s plan to consider, as well as the opinions of Michelin-starred ...