Tag: Cooking

Until recently cucumbers and watermelon were the foods with the highest water content. Now an Italian team of researchers has compiled a book about their closest competition: jellyfish. The integrated cookbook contains 9 delicious recipes written by two Michelin-starred Italian chefs and a food blogger from Hong Kong. The team hopes to improve the image of jellyfish and is...

All you need to test whether eggs are still fresh is a glass of water. But for people whose sense of taste has been affected by cancer or Covid, even fresh eggs can still taste rotten. Which is why a 27-year-old chef has put together a book of recipes which combines insights from the London-based Centre for the Study...

Hot off the press: a large-scale study has found that regularly eating chilli peppers may increase our life expectancy by up to a quarter. Capsaicin, the compound which gives chilli peppers their kick, can have anti-inflammatory, blood-glucose regulating and anticancer effects on our bodies. While the reasons behind these findings, and the amount and type of chilli peppers that...