On food and cooking the science and lore of the kitchen ( PDFDrive ) 473

Texture Color Flavor Handling and Storing Fruits and Vegetables Post-Harvest Deterioration Handling Fresh Produce The Storage Atmosphere Temperature Control: Refrigeration Temperature Control: Freezing Cooking Fresh Fruits and Vegetables How Heat Affects the Qualities of Fruits and Vegetables Hot Water: Boiling, Steaming, PressureCooking Hot Air, Oil, and Radiation: Baking, Frying, and Grilling Microwave Cooking Pulverizing and Extracting Preserving Fruits and Vegetables Drying and Freeze-Drying Fermentation and Pickling: Sauerkraut and Kimchi, Cucumber Pickles, Olives Sugar Preserves Canning We turn now from milk, eggs, meats, and fish, all expressions of animating protein and energizing fat, and enter the very different world that sustains them and us alike The plant world encompasses earthy roots, bitter and pungent and refreshing leaves, perfumed flowers, mouth-filling fruits, nutty seeds, sweetness and tartness and astringency and pleasing pain, and aromas by the thousands! It turns out that this exuberantly diverse world was born of simple, harsh necessity Plants can’t move as animals do In order to survive their immobile, exposed condition, they became virtuosic chemists They construct themselves from the simplest materials of the earth itself, water and rock and air and light, and thus transform the earth into food on which all animal life depends Plants deter ... We turn now from milk, eggs, meats, and fish, all expressions of animating protein and energizing fat, and enter the very different world that sustains them and us alike The plant world encompasses earthy roots, bitter and. .. was born of simple, harsh necessity Plants can’t move as animals do In order to survive their immobile, exposed condition, they became virtuosic chemists They construct themselves from the simplest materials of the. .. construct themselves from the simplest materials of the earth itself, water and rock and air and light, and thus transform the earth into food on which all animal life depends Plants deter