Mankind has since the beginning of time been waging daily, life-or-death war against toxic microbes in food. We either kill the microbes or they kill us; it really is that simple. Our primary weapons in this war, from earliest times…
Category: Food irradiation
Food, wine, fungus, and gamma rays: an ocean of seeming incongruity—and potential
One of my brothers runs an awesome bakery in Scarborough, which offers yeasted and naturally leavened—a.k.a. sourdough—breads of outstanding quality; see Fig. 1. Both yeasted and sourdough breads are produced using the biological process of fermentation, which is essentially the…
Innovation, water, and energy: semi-conductors cannot defeat physics
I was at a “maker’s lab” the other day, where inventors experimented with computer numerically controlled (CNC) designs of motors, and motored systems like three-dimensional printers. It was fascinating. There is technology today, a lot of it open-source, that enables…