That is what the forums are for, sharing our thoughts and idea's while receiving feedback from our peers. But, I will look at it anyway.
Cool!
Costa Rica presente.... Pura Vida!!!
Saludos! Qué bueno saber de este grupo! Que disfrutemos el curso!!
Hola...desde México saludos a todos...no tengo un gran dominio del inglés, así que me encanta que haya un grupo en español...
Saludos desde México DF, espero este bastante interesante el curso
Guai!!! Saludos desde Barcelona! :)
Perfecto, mi inglés había sido algo decente hace algún tiempo. Ahora es un verdadero desastre. Hola a tod@s desde Barcelona!
@Manuel, para colaborar en traducir los videos igual conviene mejor el wiki. He creado una página principal para los subtítulos.
@Bibi, ahora que he leído más me ha entrado una duda sobre si los subtítulos que pongamos ahí se utilizarían automáticamente o si hace falta bajar el vídeo, copiar los subtitulos a un archivo .srt, y ver el vídeo con un software de medios que entienda srt.
En cuanto a la organización, creo que será más clara cuando hayan publicado los primeros vídeos y luego alguien (podría hacerlo yo) haya creado las páginas correspondientes.
Saludos desde Culiacán, Sinaloa, México. Ya mandé la solicitud al grupo de Facebook.
Presente soy de Guatemala
Hola desde coolombia bogota tambien, no sabia que había tantos hispanohablantes por acá! Ya me les uno al face.
Would love to start a study group but have never been in one. If you want to grow with me and experience this with a newbie I would be delighted.
Hi Sharon, I'd love to join your study group. Like you, I have never been in a study group. I think this ourselves will be fun and interesting.
I'll join and have fun hopefully
Hi Everyone
I teach online and this is my first MOOC. I too have a degree in Nutrition and found that the only way to have survived some of my courses was by forming study groups. I am taking this for fun and professional reasons so the concept of an online study group is intriguing. I am in!
Thank you for organizing.
Hi Paveekorn: I also like world history. I'd like to join your study group. I'm Juan from Yucatan, Mexico.
Hi Study Group,
I looked at the quiz for this first week. It is located through the assignment page. There is a suggestion for which meal to participate in. (See below) There are also substitute suggestions there. Lucky me, I get to eat all chocolate. Happy eating!
Sara
If born in Jan-Mar to take Meal A; in Apr-Jun to take Meal B; in Jul-Sep to take Meal C, and in Oct-Dec to take Meal D.
Sharron, I too am doing the all chocolate meal (yeah). I decided on milk chocolate because I know by the second piece of dark chocolate I would be done (satiated). I'll be on train tonight for three hours and will put on my iPod with great music. I want to see how long i will enjoy my pieces of chocolate.
So far I think the quizzes are based on our experience. I do no believe there is a right or wrong answer, I am. Pretty sure that the mark is based on your participation. Try not to get too hung up on that aspect. Just do the assignments and answer the questions based on your response to the assignment.
I am reviving my passion for cooking! Thanks Jomar for initiating this study group... Filipino foods should really go international.
Hey everyone! I live between QC and Marikina haha Happy to see lots of Pinoys here! :)
Ma'am Liyah, This is also my first course here. Sir Jomar is almost a veteran. I hope to finish the course and made it through all the assigned task.
Do you have a shop? I'd like to try em. I'm always scouting for new good places (for reasons I can't reveal, so as not to raise hopes)
Que ótima ideia! Sou brasileira, moro em Jundiai, SP e tenho um péssimo inglês. Mas, estou muito satisfeita com as aulas.
Olá. Sou do Rio de Janeiro.
Oi!! Sou de Curitiba -PR
Sou do Rio mas atualmente morando em Vancouver
Opa! Quantos Brasileiros! Genial! Sou do Rio! Vamos trocar idéias sobre as aulas!
Sou de São Paulo, SP.
Oi pessoal! Sou de Piracecaba/ SP. Bom saber que temos vários Brasileiros no curso!!!
Hi everyone! Elma here, living in Utrecht. I'm a food blogger who loves to cook, illustrate and photograph food. I am really looking forward to the course :-)
Thank you! I just looked at your blog and you take awesome photos! I'm a photography beginner in general and will actually take a course soon to learn more about my dSLR. As you can tell I'm obsessed with food...
Not ringing any bells... But yes, small world. Just saw some of your photos on Flickr and you are very good! And you even belong to a photography club - I'm impressed :-)
I'm from the Eindhoven area.
Who did the all chocolat assignment (meal 4)? I did and they all tasted great :) Not sure if that was supposed to be so.
Well, it's about your experience and taste. So no answer is wrong.
Hey there
Only after cooking. My kitchen is full of Grease! Ha ha!
My name is Meri Bryant.I am From Istanbul but live in Charleston, South Carolina. I love all kind of cuisine, but Turkish, Chinese, and French are my preferred. Asuman Hanım blog için teşekkürler
Hi. My name is Alica and I am also from Melbourne
Hi everyone, I think I'm the only one from Sydney here. Would you mind if I join your study group? Cheers! Noni
Hi...I'm from Delhi....I am really excited about this course...
Hi everyone! I come from HK too. I enjoyed prof chow's lecture very much!
Kayleigh, thanks for starting this conversation !
Hi I am gluten intolerant, also lactose intolerant and have severe allergy to nuts so I am going to find this course a bit tough to do but I would be interested in joining a study group. I have just started learning to enjoy cooking now I know what makes me ill so am keen to get as much information as I can about food.
I am so glad you found what was making you ill, now eating gluten free for you should be easy because its the only way you can eat to fill well. Good luck !!
Hi my family and I follow what's known as the paleo diet, it has changed my life, I was diagnosed with lupus at age 15 and even though is in remission I had not been feeling well for a long time. I am know 34 and I have been eating the Paleo way for 2 months and it the first time in years I am finally feeling healthy and enjoying so many things. I am a chef instructor so it has been easy to p,ay around with other GF flours. This diet is belly friendly for people with celiac, auto immune diseases etc.. Worth taking a look.
I often think of all the people that have nut allergies, I am sorry you In that situation. I am experimenting with others flours like arrowroot and tapioca, but I do mix it with nuts flours. I have found some GF and nuts free recipe in this site... www.thepaleomom.com, this blogger is a scientist and has great info and recipes. Keep in mind that yes the diet is restricted in many ways, but when you learn the reason of why you are eating the way you Are eating, and when you start seeing a difference on how you feel, it will be worth it. My husband has actually lost 34 lbs in 7 weeks without exercise, and he is feeling much better. For me the list is too long to write it here, but I have always being anemic and for the first time my anemia is gone, without supplement and 4 weeks of eating this way..and the list can go on. Good luck, I hope the website help. I am here if you need help.
I am sensitive to milk too, including soy, I love cheese and I find that having raw cheese or from grass fed makes a difference. About flours, I tried a pizza made from tapioca flour and it was great, maybe this flour is an option for Cathleen. Something to remember about tapioca is that it get a very golden color when baking so watch your temp.
Are you the cook in the house? And do you have kids? Right now as much as I want to, I haven't change my kids to fully Paleo because they go to school and they share snacks with friends, so it's really hard to keep them gluten free, but I do try to make nite time meal gluten free by choosing foods that would taste close to what they are used to and also by including them in the cooking process. Example, everyone loves potatoes, soI made a faux mash potatoes with parsnips and some coconut flour for thickening, and even my picky eater loved it, I had him help me blend it in the food processor, and just the fact that he is helping makes it more appealing. Sometimes I make a new dessert and don't even tell them is Paleo. Mentioning the word diet can be a turn off at any age, so I always explain that Paleo to me is a way of eating not a diet.
Judy I love that book, I got it in my iPad. For your in laws maybe try breading with coconut or almond flour, or a mixture with some arrow root flour, bake it instead of frying and see if they like it. Don't even tell them how you breaded it lol
I won't mind sharing my recipes, I speak Spanish but all my recipes are in English, I will work on translating some for the Spanish speaking community.
I have no food allergies (yet) but I am interested on this topic. Thank you for creating it.
Kayleigh... I will start a version of this conversation in Spanish because I have the feeling many other people have questions about this GF lifestyle. Since you started this conversation I will be giving you credit. I will go back and forth translating some of the important information that is being shared here and will give credit to the original writer.
I know this class is not about GF but its nice to help others that are suffering with food allergies, I am sure eventually we will move on to other subjects once the class starts. But at least we can have a reference area for those looking for help.
Hi, thanks, got It.
Agree with Michael. I also think that our bodies are reacting to all the preservatives and GMO products. We have deviated so far from natural eating habits and food preparation, we remove good proteins and fats from milk, to then fortified again with other man made nutrients. We eat iron fortified cereal with milk, but forget that once we add milk your body can't absorb the iron, so it's really counter productive, but we eat it and walk away happy thinking we just fed our bodies.
Not sure if this is the route Michael was going for...but it's my personal opinion.
MILLIONAIRES SHORTBREAD
Makes 12 slices
Shortbread base ingredients:
1½ cups ground almonds
1 cup dried, unsweetened coconut
¼ cup coconut sugar or organic raw sugar or finely chopped dates
¼ teaspoon sea salt
Caramel ingredients:
3 Tbl cup melted coconut oil
3 Tbl nut butter (macadamia gives the best flavour)
½ cup non-dairy milk powder (I use quinoa)
1½ cups softened dates
1Tbl + 1 tsp lime or lemon juice
2 tsp caramel extract (or essence)
1 tsp vanilla extract
pinch salt
Chocolate ingredients:
1 cup cashews (soaked for about 2 hours)
1 cup sunflower seeds
⅓ cup coconut oil
⅓ cup maple syrup or xylitol
¼ cup lemon or lime juice
¼ cup raw cocoa powder
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 Tbl water
¼ tsp salt
Place all shortbread base ingredients in a food processor. Process until the mixture sticks together and the dates are well processed.
Line a 20 X 20cm dish with clingfilm.
Press shortbread mixture into the dish with your hands. Pop into the fridge to chill while you make the caramel layer.
In a small bowl combine all ingredients for the caramel and mix well until a smooth paste is formed - adding water the dates were soaked in by the teaspoonful if necessary to thin the mixture slightly. Spread the caramel on top of the base layer and pop into the freezer to harden.
Blend nuts and seeds until smooth, then place all remaining chocolate mixture ingredients into a food processor or blender. Blend until very smooth.
Put the chocolate mixture on top of the caramel smoothing with the back of a spoon.
Cover and freeze for at least 1 hour. (Always store these in the freezer.)
Before serving let a frozen slice thaw out on the counter for 15 minutes or so.
Well, I heard Russian one day (can't remember where) and i thought it was a beautiful language and i wanted to learn it. There aren't any classes on it where i live and the only person who spoke Russian at my school wasn't interested in tutoring. I looked at many websites and books. Then i printed off some work sheets starting with the alphabet and slowly working my way up. I made a "russian binder" and i looked at it inbetween classes and at home. Eventually i learned enough to become pretty much fluent in it! :)
Круто! Я беру французский язык в школе, потому что они не предлагают России, и это мой третий любимый язык. Я восхищаюсь людьми, которые говорят более чем на одном языке. (Russian)
Здорово! Всем привет! Я с вами. Надеюсь будет интересно)
Всем привет, я из Новосибирска, и да, тоже из любопытства. Моя реальная специальность далека от кулинарии, но очень интересуюсь едой и технологие приготовления, за спиной уже несколько курсов на rouxbe.
Всем привет! Я из Москвы, меня зовут Ольга)
Привет! Я тоже из Москвы. Первый раз онлайн-курс пробую.
Thanks for the help
Всем привет! Я тоже из Питера) и я там живу)) вообще то я преподаватель французского языка, но очень люблю готовить и в ближайшее время собираюсь открывать свой магазин специй, так что ради удовольствия записалась на курс!
Приветствую всех! В данный момент живу на Дальнем Востоке; по образованию физик :) Тем не менее, интересуюсь различными областями знаний. На данный момент закончил 32 курса на coursera, из них три по теме питания: «Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention», «Child Nutrition and Cooking», «Nutrition, Health, and Lifestyle». Могу отметить, что курс «Nutrition for Health Promotion» был наиболее интересным, а «Child Nutrition» не оправдал ожиданий.
Посмотрим, что нам предложит данный курс :) Всем успеха!
Несомненно, курс Майи впечатляет своим настроем и забавными рисунками. Однако возникло легкое чувство незавершенности, т.к. практически не уделялось внимание балансу микро и макроэлементов в пиши для детей; не было анализа влияния того или иного блюда на ребёнка (только общие замечания). К тому же, меня удивило количество соли, которое использовалось при приготовлении практически каждого блюда. Соли явно было много, что отмечалось даже на форуме. Например, в ходе готовки тушеного мяса, соль щедро добавлялась как в мясо, так и в сам бульон. Ещё один момент, Майя ни разу не упомянуло про добавки или опасные компоненты, которые могут содержаться в используемых продуктах. Добавляя соевый соус, она не прокомментировала, что сложно найти настоящий ферментированный продукт, и большая часть обычного соевого соуса содержит хлорпропанол. В целом же, если Майя слегка доработает курс, то следующая версия будет очень привлекательной :)
В перечне фигурируют: Дальневосточный федеральный университет, Казанский федеральный университет, Московский физико-технический институт, Национальный исследовательский технический университет 'МИСиС', Национальный исследовательский университет 'Высшая школа экономики', МИФИ, Нижегородский государственный университет им. Н.И.Лобачевского, Новосибирский государственный университет, Самарский государственный аэротехнический университет им. С.П.Королева.
В списке значатся также три петербургских и два томских университета. Замыкает перечень Уральский федеральный университет им. Б.Ельцина.
Всего на субсидии претендовали 54 вуза, к конкурсу допустили 36 университетов. Отбор проводился по таким показателям, как уровень развития научной деятельности, привлекательности образовательных программ для абитуриентов и позиция в международных университетских рейтингах и другим критериям.'
Читать полностью: http://top.rbc.ru/society/09/07/2013/865177.shtml
Манера говорить немного непривычная, да :)
Спасибо вам за этот коммент! Реально, на этот курс можно было подписаться изза него
Это просто :) 25 лет прожила в Минске, потом переехали в Ригу. Теперь я и рижанка и минчанка в душе :)
Плюс один к произношению Не смогла слушать курс, остаеовилась на второй неделе где то Но Хочу все таки посмотреть некоторе лекции по интересующим темам, выборочно
И да, на курсы азиатских университетов тоже не буду пока записываться )
Queen Anne here.
From Fairfax County, North Virginia.
We should all start a meet up group for this course. This thread is one of the longest and I think it would be fun to do some the experiments with those who are also very interested in Gastronomy and also as a way to discuss the material covered. I am new to using coursera, anyone formed a meetup group on here before? Would others be interested in doing a meetup? If others are, I will explore how to set up a meetup for our region the greater DC area.
Hi, I live about 30 miles north of Baltimore. Guess that's a bit farther than where you are?
I live in MoCo too! Great to see a number of my geographic neighbors enrolled in this course:)
Hola soy Liliana soy de Guadalajara soy química fármacobióloga, estuve trabajando dos años en la industria alimenticia y me llamó mucho la atención toda la química de los alimentos, siempre busqué un curso que pudiera explicar el cocinar desde un punto de vista químico donde se involucraran reacciones químicas, pues es lo que más me apasiona, espero poder encontrar las bases para saber cocinar platillos y que queden bien hechos por tener el fundamento químico
Están mal redactadas las instrucciones, lo que se debe hacer según el profesor es que se prueben todos los platillos de las opciones en la pregunta uno combinadas con el té y todos los platillos de las opciones de la pregunta dos combinadas con el vino rojo, (el problema también es que no especifica con que tipo de vino ni con que tipo de té), y así puedas determinar cual es el mejor acompañante de cada cual, si sigues teniendo dudas lee los foros de discusión en el área de assignments y hay varios foros en los que el profesor resuelve las dudas para la tarea 8, suerte y espero haberte ayudado en algo.
Hola!! Me uno al Grupo de México. Juan Carlos Vivo en Mérida y tengo un negocio de nutrición. Tengo la intensión de abrir una cafetería, de ahí mi interès por esta materia. Saludos a todos!!
Hola , soy Rodolfo
soy Mexicano y Coahuilense, vivo en Japón y Monterrey, NL. Diseñador Industrial por decisión, chef en formación y foodie por convicción, la disciplina asiática garantiza los principios de comprensión gastronómicos , "la ciencia es como el héroe anónimo de un hermoso platillo". Animo . Saludos En twitter soy @peloteroalabola
Hola, soy Tere y vivo en Celaya. Saludos
Hola saludos desde Mexicali, Baja California! Hasta ahora me ha resultado interesante el curso. Apenas estoy por hacer las tareas.
Hola soy Pablo Domínguez, de Guanajuato. Llevo cocinando 5 años (porque para mi no es trabajo es pación) y estudiando gastronomía un año.
Saludos
Soy Nash, curse lic en Gastronomia en el Colegio Superior de Gastronomia en el D.F, pero hace 2 años estoy retirada (housewife) Y quiero mantenerme actualizada, es mi primer curso on líne a ver que tal me va... Saludos a todos, la verdad me sorprende ver tanta gente de México y L.A. Me da gusto que con este grupo podamos integrarnos mejor al curso, me encuentran en Twitter como NashPastrana o mi Mail es: nashpastrana@gmail.com. Suerte a todos.
Hola Jorge, quizá sea que como el harina tiene un muy bajo porcentaje de agua, absorbe el aceite y reacciona con el, al momento de añadir el huevo ya no entra en contacto directo con el aceite solo, sino que ya esta combinado con otro ingrediente y formando un complejo químico con este. Saludos
有疑问的不妨去果壳这个楼里提问
包括我在内应该有若干人在海外读书或者读过书,可以帮的上忙。
I think I am Chinese, people think I look err African ( i call them profilers). So if they are right and I am hallucinating, then I make up being Chinese in my love of the food and the language.. So if love counts, wo ye shi Zhongguoren =)
Hi from Beijing
What a good excuse to invite someone to home
Thank you all for your helpful replies.
Thank you so much Radu for offering to take me on a quick tour. I don't know very well how things are going to go yet, but if I can I'll give you a call or send you an email.
Gert, I don't like Portuguese beer, so if German beer tastes very different I just might like it. If there's one thing I want is to try German food and beverages with an open mind, so I'm definitely going to try it. I'll be sure to try a variety of breads as well, since it's something I like very much.
Grace, it's good to know German food also includes vegetables. For me, a meal isn't complete unless it has vegetables in it. I'm not a vegetarian, but I 'can't live' without my veggies. :)
I'll be sure to check out the places you guys recommended. Thanks!
I'm really looking forward to visiting Germany. Judging from all the pictures/videos I've seen, it's an absolutely beautiful country. Thank you for all the suggestions. :)
Sehr schön, hast du eine Idee ob und wo man hier pns verschicken kann?
Hallo, ich bin Ursula aus Stuttgart. Den 'Schein' bekommt man dann, wenn man 70% der Aufgaben richtig gelöst hat, in anderen Kursen bekommt man unmittelbar nach der Abgabe die Rückmeldung, wieviel richtig gelöst wurde. Die Rückmeldung für das Zertifikat bekommt man am Ende von Coursera, man druckt es dann selbst aus. Ein bisschen seltsam ist hier, dass es keine reading assignments gibt, als Grundlage für die quizzes hat man also nur die Videos und dann natürlich die eigenen Erfahrungen. Dass man 100 Versuche für die quizzes hat, kenne ich so auch nicht, bei meinem letzten Kurs waren es 15, was auch schon eine Unmenge war. Nach dem Ansehen der ersten Videos kommt mir alles ein bisschen handgestrickt vor, aber lassen wir uns überraschen, :-)
nice idea Matti! ich finde es einfach, wenn wir uns per FB unterhalten! es hat bei anderen kurse auch gut geklappt!
There already is one created some time ago
Hello, Im from Portugal, anyone else is from here?
Kakva su vam iskustva iz prvog zadatka? Ja sam odradila varijantu s krekerima i čokoladom. Iznenadilo me da su mi krekeri poslije prvog bili sve lošiji, zatim opet malo bolji pred kraj, a čokolada mi za kraj nije baš bila nešto. Očekivala sam da će prvi kreker biti najbolji, ali nisam mislila da će tako varirati pa mi je bilo zanimljivo.
I am in San Jose. Let us know what time and day each one prefers. We can decide to meet midway which is convenient to all. I can meet post 20th anytime during the week. Weekends are not too flexible for me,
I'm in Castro Valley. I'm interested too if there is such a meet up. Thank you.
Concord, here.
I would agree with Katrina, those in San Jose/ mountain view/ Sunnyvale can decide to meet together. And those in Oakland/ Sfo can study together.
Paleo here. Would like to know what other alternatives there are.
From what I saw on the forum, the discussions on paleo are just criticizing or defending the "diet". There is another discussion on gluten-free foods.
I'm up in Palmdale. :)
I'm in London too. Any others?
The results from a number of studies suggest that vitamins and minerals are indeed lost when something is cooked. However, the claim that all nutrients are lost is a very extreme statement. In a study completed by Mieko Kimura and Yoshinori Itokawa, various foods were analyzed for their mineral content before and after the food was cooked. The cooking losses of the minerals sodium, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, and copper were examined.
The researchers concluded that the mineral content in mass cooking was approximately 60-70 percent of the minerals in raw or uncooked foods. Vegetables, when compared with other foods, lost a noticeably higher amount of vitamins. When different cooking methods were compared for vitamin loss, squeezing after boiling and soaking a thin slice in water lost the most vitamins, preceeded by parching frying and stewing (Kimura, 1990).
In an additional experiment performed by D. Rumm-Kreuter and I. Demmel, vitamin losses through the cooking process were measured and compared. The degrees to which vitamins are lost through the cooking process are attributable to many factors. The type of food, variety of vegetables, method of cutting, preparation, duration and method of cooking all have an influence on the amount of vitamins lost. In addition, the extent to which vitamins are lost was also attributable to the vitamin�s sensitivity to things like water, oxygen, light, and temperature. When comparing cooking methods, the researcher found that steaming was the most successful method of retaining the vitamin content of food. Stir-frying and pressure cooking also proved to be good methods of cooking (Rumm-Kreuter, 1990)
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/rawfoods.htm
Some foods are even poisonous if you don't cook them I am pretty sure such as certain type of beans (kidney beans I think)
Also when it comes to flavor you are going to miss out on a lot without applying heat to foods because the browning and caramelization processes add flavors.
My daddy always said eating the very charred bits of his grilled chicken and meat would make hair grow on my chest. My husband is glad it's not so.
Ingredients
Grilling Sauce Recipe
Dipping Sauce Recipe
Directions
On a dinner plate, pour lemon juice to cover center of plate. This will be used to dip cut artichokes (this keeps edges from turning brown).
Rinse the artichoke under cool running water. Gently pull away the leaves so that the water can get between them, but don’t pull the leaves off. Pull off any small leaves that may be attached to the stem. Lightly towel dry the artichokes.
Prep artichokes by cutting off 1/2″ of stem (if there is still a stem attached), then dip into lemon juice.Cut off top 1 1/2″ – 2″ of artichoke. Dip cut edges into lemon juice.Using a scissors, cut off the sharp points of the leaves. Dip your fingers into the lemon juice and rub over the cut edges.Cut the artichoke in half, lengthwise. Dip the artichoke halves into the lemon juice.
Remove the purple leaves and hairy portion cover the choke. You can use a grapefruit spoon or sharp knife for this part. Again, use your fingers to cover the exposed choke with lemon juice.
Insert a steamer basket into a 5 quart pot and fill with water up to the bottom of the steamer. Bring water to a boil, then add the artichoke halves. Cover and steam for 25 – 30 minutes (stems or leaves should be easily pierced with a knife). Remove from heat and let cool.While artichokes are steaming, prepare dipping sauce.
In a food processor bowl, add in sun dried tomatoes and process them into a powder. Next add in roasted garlic and onion and process into a smooth paste.Spoon processed paste into a bowl. Add in remaining ingredients from dipping sauce recipe. Stir to combine thoroughly, and chill.
In a small pot add all ingredients for grilling sauce. Heat over medium high heat until butter is melted. Stir until all ingredients are combined.
Heat grill to 400 degrees Farenheit.
Put artichoke halves on grill leaf side down. Brush exposed side with grilling sauce. Grill for 5 minutes and flip. Brush exposed side with grilling sauce. Grill for an additional 5 minutes. Remove from heat and brush choke side with grilling sauce again.
Serve 1 to 2 artichoke halves with bowl of dipping sauce per plate.
Thanks for your comment. I couldn't figure out how I had missed the lecture video!
It's a mixed bag. Cooking tomatoes makes lycopene available but destroys vitimin c. Someone above mentioned a varied diet being best, and that seems right to me.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/04/020422073341.htm
I think this article is funny, but disagree with most of what he says.
Consider not only the direct nutritional benefits or detriments of cooking our food but also the psychological impact as well. Why do we eat? Is it more than to satisfy a biological need? Have you ever eaten a meal and enjoyed it when you weren't even hungry to begin with? Foods from our upbringing no matter if their nutritional value has been destroyed due to how they were prepare can have significant calming effects and often times pleasurable. I would hate to see a day when we eat only to satisfy a biological necessity.
I agree with Tyler. While cooking may lessen the nutritional value of some foods, the net benefit is greater due to making certain foods easier to consume even if a larger portion is required. I am basing my opinion on the definition of cooking being the application of heat to raw food. I do not consider fermentation, or marination as cooking.
Brandi, Have you had fresh Lima beans?
I like this posting because it is thinking outside the box. Personally, I have just discovered the "light" through qigong and I would be interested to hear more comments on this idea. Thanks Brandi!
There has been some debate about where our physical health and well-being comes from. Some maintain Divine, cosmic energy is the real source of our sustenance and to place importance on the nature of the foods we consume is to buy into yet another illusion of the denser realities. To me, this argument reduces the source of health to a black-and-white issue when in fact it is a luminous rainbow inclusive of all variations.
Gabriel Cousens, M.D. goes into great detail in his book, Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet, describing the system through which he believes cosmic energy feeds and nourishes the physical body. This system begins with the potential energy that fills the cosmos prior to the materialization of an object. The first 'stepping down' of this virtual energy is into something called a tachyon field space, which can be thought of as the virtual state trying to become a particle. This tachyon field energy is next stepped down as vortical forms of energy which exist near the speed of light as a particle of matter called a photon. This continues to be stepped down into what Cousens refers to as Subtle Organizing Energy Fields (SOEFs), which create the template form of living systems. These SOEFS resonate with and energize the mind and body. The belief is that a perfectly organized SOEF can transfer by resonance from the level of purely cosmic energy to the biological level without a loss of energy. The SOEFs work in conjunction with the chakras and a series of subtle energy fields that regulate the flow of energy into the different parts of the body.
Cousens says that the functioning of the SOEFs is impacted by the foods we eat: 'When we eat in a healthy, harmonious way, our ability to attune and commune with the Divine is enhanced.' When we eat foods of high vibration that are raw, organic and living, and when we live an energizing, harmonious lifestyle, the energy of the SOEFs is enhanced. When energized, the SOEFs develop a more structured, defined organization that better maintains the form and function of the human system. This optimal function can reverse entropy or aging. On the other hand, when SOEFs are depleted through eating low energy foods and living energy-depleting lifestyles, they become less organized and the body ages.
This is why the true source of abundance is the ability to receive this unlimited cosmic energy free flowing into the SOEFs and the physical body. As our mind and body become better conductors, we're able to store and transmit greater and greater amounts of higher energy. This explains how miracles have occurred in the presence of spiritual masters.
David Wolfe in his book, Eating for Beauty, offers a simpler explanation for the value of eating a raw food diet: 'Enlightenment is just that -- making yourself lighter.'
Wolfe says raw plant foods, laughter, joy, bliss and unconditional love all exist on the same frequency. He says tuning into this frequency raises the overall vibration of your energy field, causing anything that is vibrating at a lower frequency, such as fear, pain, doubt, cancer, ugliness, depression and toxins to eventually percolate out to be ejected from the body. This is detoxification. Wolfe also says that eating raw plant foods triggers a transformative process that allows you to rebuild yourself at a deep level.
Paul Nison in Raw Knowledge says in order to reach the soul, you can't be weighed down with food. Those eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) spend most of their energy digesting food. Nison says it's important to have a spiritual context when you set out to live the raw food lifestyle. Otherwise, 'this newfound energy does not feel grounded to the average person,' he says. 'Once we clean our minds and bodies, we are able to live with the lightness that less eating and a clean body will produce and we will be able ready to get in touch with a much higher place.'
My conclusion is that it's true that spirit is the body's fuel. The body derives its nourishment from pranic energy, but when the body is dirty, it's hard for it to use pranic energy. When people eat cooked food and put things into their bodies that don't belong there, this toxic build up keeps the third eye shut. As people start to eat cleaner, more healthful foods, the third eye starts to open and we are able to see the signs that passed us by when the third eye was closed. All of us have this eye. We just have to open it to see the unseen. There are signs everywhere once this eye is open.
Brandi....you have much agreement. Relax
Karen, Thanks for that article. I stand corrected.
Boy, that's a tough call. I just bought a juicer and I have "ingested" many pounds of carrots, apples, and lemons to choke a horse. I'm still trying to get a good handle on the idea that my body may prefer juice in place of "food". And, is the stuff that comes that comes out of the chute "useless"? Sure tastes good.
Sources for this?
Again, wikipedia is not a valid source.
Richard, Thank you for making the point about wikiepedia; thousands of us watch it and may correct it." That is exactly why wikipedia is not usable for a source of reliable information. It is merely a conglomeration of any certain opinions at any time. Thanks, Martha. Ps what is the university's position on wikipedia? Staff please answer.
Cooking may help decrease the amount of pesticides in or on vegetables. At least one study has examined directly pesticide presence in beans and corn after washing and/or peeling plus cooking. Cooking decreased the amount of pesticides in both these vegetables.
Schattenberg HJ III, Geno PW, Hsu JP, Fry WG, Parker RP. Effect of household preparation on levels of pesticide residues in produce. Journal of AOAC International. 1996;79:1447–53.
Carbohydrates in our diet are particularly frequent in the form of starch (bread, pasta, rice, and so on). The cooking of pasta, or rice, or peas and the like, invariably includes a step of boiling. With this we can achieve two main effects. One is the hydration of the starch molecules, which are kept in the plant cell with a minimum of water to facilitate storage. The second effect is the partial hydrolysis of starch, a polysaccharide, which must be broken down into its component glucose units for intestinal absorption. But these two actions of carbohydrate cooking are essentially the same as those performed by saliva in our mouths. Insalivation moistures our bread and the saliva amylase partially breaks down the starch into smaller molecules. Cooking helps digestion, by contributing to some of its degradative steps.
The same can be said of the proteins in our diet. With a few exceptions, for example, sushi and some seafood, in which raw meats are eaten in small amounts, proteins are denatured by heat and partially hydrolyzed during cooking. Both effects are again found in digestion, this time in the stomach. In this case denaturation does not occur by heat, but by acid (the gastric juice has a pH as low as 1). Note incidentally that in pickled herring, to mention one example, the proteins are denatured by acid (vinegar), just as it is done in the stomach by hydrochloric acid. Denaturation is meant to facilitate degradation to peptides and ultimately to amino acids, to be absorbed in the intestine. Cooking, especially cooking by heat, causes partial hydrolysis of proteins by activating proteases present in the cell lysosomes. In digestion, enzymes like pepsin, which can work under extremely acidic conditions, perform the partial hydrolysis of proteins in the stomach. It can be mentioned in this context that the food combination of meat with pineapple (Hawaii) or meat with papaya (Brazil) are excellent examples of this point. Both pineapple and papaya contain protease enzymes, respectively bromelain and papain, which are active at the low pH of the stomach, so these food combinations are somehow providing extra digestive power.
The case of fats is equally interesting. The primary enzymes involved in fat digestion are the lipases in the small intestine. However, lipases can only act in an aqueous environment. Therefore, fats must be fragmented into tiny particles, usually by mixing with non-fat substances, giving rise to microscopic droplets or micelles, amenable to digestion by lipases. In the small intestine, fat fragmentation (emulsion) is achieved by a special brand of detergents, the so-called bile salts, produced by the liver. Bile salts combine with the water-insoluble fats to produce a stable aqueous dispersion or emulsion of bile salt/fat-mixed micelles. The only source of fat in infancy, and a large source of fat for many humans throughout their lives, is milk. Milk is said to be easily digested. In fact, milk is a natural emulsion of fat in water, stabilized this time by proteins instead of bile salts. The cooking of fats normally includes their emulsion. Typical culinary emulsions are mayonnaise and béarnaise sauces, of a very complex physical chemistry. In the Basque Country, several fish preparations of cod and hake include sauces, which consist of olive oil and water emulsions stabilized by the fish proteins. In short, cooking anticipates the digestive fate of fats, that is emulsions, prior to their degradation and absorption in the small intestine.
This discussion probably explains the enormous evolutionary advantage of cooking for humans. Cooking is a purely human activity. The energy and time required to eat and digest cooked meals are much less than in the case of raw foods. Cooking liberated mankind for other activities, in addition to facilitating its feeding, the limiting step in animal reproduction. It is not an exaggeration to say that cooking has, to a large extent, made us human.
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Problably the first time is instinct, then we learn and becomes culture, we transfer it from generations...
I don't see any links to an introductory lecture, or any mention of it in the course outline. Where did you find it?
It looks like it has been taken down. I could not find it either after having reviewed it last night!!!
Here is a cultural difference I experienced while serving in an island country, Kiribati, in the Peace corps. The Kiribati people survive by feast or famine. In the USA, we normally only feast on holidays like thanksgiving where generally, everyone overindulges. In an island country, where there is no refrigeration, one needs to eat what is brought to the table at any given time as one never knows when or where the next meal will be. Hence, the feast or famine.
Good question! For sure, you knew it was a special occasion when there was a cake, a pig slaughtered, or a turtle!
I have just begun to read about organic vs. conventional foods. It seems that most articles suggest that there are insignificant nutritional differences between the two. It appears most people are interested in what organic food does NOT have: pesticides. I was surprised to learn that in the US, organic labeled food may have had organic pesticides applied and if the organic pesticides don’t work it is allowable to use synthetic pesticides. I guess that is were the motto: “Know your farmer” comes from so that you can talk with your farmer and learn exactly how it was grown. References:
“The great organic myths: Why organic foods are an indulgence the world can't afford”
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-great-organic-myths-why-organic-foods-are-an-indulgence-the-world-cant-afford-818585.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food
Along with organic vs. conventional is GMO food. It is interesting to not that corn is not a natural occurring food, neither is its precursor: maize. Corn/maize was actually genetically modified from a grass like plant called teosinte.
Also, almost all sugar in the US comes from corn or sugar beets which are both a very high percentage of GMO. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_crops
I know I may have hit an emotional hot button here, an it certainly looks like I am against organic food and for GMO food, but I do have an open mind and look forward to any further discussion, backed up by scientific fact, in helping me form an opinion of these subjects.
Now, I am absolutely not denying some legitimate concerns about GMOs, such as the possibility of creating super-bugs with disease-resistant crops, just like overuse of antibiotics caused drug-resistant strains of bacteria. Those are issues that need to be addressed, but we should work on them with open rather than reactionary minds.
I agree with your excitement, Josephine. The two subjects, however you view them, are the perfect combination of deliciousness. Just enjoy.
my two cents on gastronomy...
In 1825, gastronomy was defined as ‘the reasoned knowledge of all that relates to man feeding himself’. Its aim was to ‘attend to the preservation of man by means of the best possible food’ (Vega and Ubbink, 2008). Social and economic situation influenced the evolution and history of gastronomy.
According to Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, the 18thcentury French epicure and author of La Physiolodie du goûl (The Physiology of Taste), Gastronomy is “the knowledge and understanding of all that relates to man as he eats. Its purpose is to ensure the conservation of men, using the best food possible.” Source: http://www.artfoodtravel.net/food/what-is-gastronomy/
Source: http://gastronomyatbu.com/2011/06/06/what-is-gastronomy/
At present health is one of the major concerns of society. We are in the process of innovating and designing dishes with new textures and flavours. Also trying to understand the impact of this on nutritional composition of dishes and how that affects the overall diet of the individual. Governments are concerned about new products and nutritional and health claims of manufacturers and drafting legislations.
In layman's language health aspect of the food/eating process weighed much more importance along with taste.
In academic view Gastronomy is both an interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary nature of study that ranging from the study of agriculture in urban environments to international commodity trade, from what role our senses play in shaping our individual and cultural notions of food to the various roles pots and pans have played in crafting culinary traditions across the world, Gastronomy can be defined as nothing short of holistic. It utilizes historical, anthropological, economic, socio-cultural, and scientific theories and methodologies, while embracing the sensual, experiential, and hands-on aspects that makes food and eating worth studying, and ultimately, worth living and dying for. Source: http://gastronomyatbu.com/2011/06/06/what-is-gastronomy/
Hi, I am curious to know whether we can attend the lesson anytime like for example, I have something on in the morning and afternoon is it possible if I see the lecture the next day or in the evening?
That's usually the way it works with Coursera-courses respectively MOOCS :-)
You won't get kicked out, but you won't get credit for them.
This is also my first time taking online course.
Are we able to "save" the lecture videos for our own use/ reference? What kind of format is the video?
Thank you.
I concur.
I am looking forward to learning more about the scientific principles involved in cooking. Preparing food is indeed an art form but when we create dishes for others we are far more vulnerable than visual artists. People not only admire our work but they smell, taste and consume our work. When they enjoy what we have prepared there is an instant gratification reward. However, if they don't enjoy our work then it can be soul destroying! The beauty of it is being able to continually experiment and strive to achieve a better result. Creating food art using science as a basis is challenging, sometimes frustrating but constantly rewarding! Very excited to be part of this course :)
I am still of the opinion that the diet industry has made us so conscious that we don't enjoy our food anymore. I am a proud carb lover and eat sensible portions not pigging out one week and engaging in a crash diet the next week. Enjoy your food, go to your local farmers market and see what is there experiment and just enjoy life like my husband will say
Great idea hangs up so needs more work.
Coursera marks videos watched as soon as you download them, even from within coursera.
Hi again, I'm wondering where can we find the video lectures
Hello, I am writing this post because I could use some clarification about conductivity and specific heat capacity.
I understand that certain objects conduct heat better than others. My question is do objects with a low specific heat conduct heat better because of their inability to retain large amounts of heat? In other words, since it takes less amount of heat to raise that objects temperature, it heats up quicker. The quicker it heats up, the quicker it is able to transfer that heat energy to the food being cooked as it is being measured as q/t (amount of heat/time, which is a rate measurement).
Agreed.
I would agree that assuming the air is relatively still, not moving, then my explanation works. If we place a fan to circulate the air we help conduction of hear between air particles. And we essentially add another level of energy transfer, convection. So absolutely the ice would melt faster. We would no doubt see the same thing if we circulated the water around the bag. The question would be how much airflow do we need to deliver the same amount of heat per unit time that the water delivers?
Good discussion. Thank you. Sadly I must go to sleep.
Bravo! I am a professional chef with degrees in biology and psychology and have found this course just right and the teachers level headed and learned. The captions never failed me (I have hearing loss). It is easy to see, just below the surface of the lectures, deep knowledge of the teachers. This is a very good course for those who have the talent to learn.
Please this is a global classroom , anonymous be more sensitive to accents which don't sound like what you are used to. All the problems you state have solutions ie closed captioning and the lectures in PDF format.
This is the best produced week of lectures, complete with experiments, I've seen so far in my year of taking Coursera courses (10 courses to date). Come on--there were experiments and demonstrations!
There is only so much the professors can convey in this form. This isn't Hollywood. If you're looking for an overdose of visual cortex, go to the movies.
Otherwise, stimulate your cerebral cortex by thinking about the implications of the subject and apply those in the real world!
If you're having trouble grasping the spoken content, read the slides and further research the subject matter.
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I understand very well what the professor says. I like very much the way he explains, and it is a very good course.
Really, this is how you conduct yourself? I'm surprised you are even bothering with classes and furthering your education! It sounds like you already KNOW everything. Please do not continue to offend your fellow students. It's rude and makes you look ridiculous. No one is here to be insulted...
Thanks!
What a clear explanation. Thank you!
Thank you for your explanation Lionel. Much appreciated.
I have one question. Did you know in advance which sound were you listening? I mean, you knew that they were cereals/wine. Has anybody made this experiment while a second person plays "secret" sounds ?
The lectures are available in the right-hand column on the main page, and that doesn't have any download links at all. It's necessary to click "Video Lectures" in the left-hand menu to get to the download links. This confused me briefly.
What about the sound of cooking the food. I would totally buy the sizzle and skip the bacon! ...ok that is a lie I would pay extra for the bacon but the sizzle sound makes my mouth water just thinking about it ^_^
I did the experiment with celery. I recorded celery sounds, sounds of chips being eaten, and the sound of someone eating a juicy peach. It was definitely weird hearing the peach while eating the celery and the chips did match up either. So it was mo satisfying eating the celery. However, when I was eating the celery with the other sounds I could still hear the celery sound that i was eating since my headphone only reduce air conduction sound and not bone conduction. I wonder if some of the decreased satisfaction had to do with the conflict in sounds as well as the conflict of sound vs substance.
According to some people, the tongue map is a myth. Moreover where in the tongue do we taste spicy food?
I think the part where parts of the tongue recognizes specific tastes is a myth.
In the lecture, we understand our foods cooked thru the use of convection. Why would some ovens called "convection oven"? When I use such "convection oven", my foods cooked faster. How does that work?
And I am not sure how microwave works. Does it use convection too? I tried searching online but some sites suggest the use of radiation. Is that a true? I thought radiation (aka BBQ) would create a browning effect, but I found the food often get very dry in the microwave.
Hope someone can help, a little confuse. Thanks
I finally understand why when I turn on the convection button, the oven is louder (due to the fan).
It make sense for the microwave too. Thanks.
Energy transfer seems to be off in the initial video given the perspective that the professor and their assistant used their fingers to submerge the ice packet under water, fingers transfer heat, which can also cause for the acceleration of the ice crystals to melt. Generally, heat is energy - more heat would cause the dissipation of energy. For food, the constructs of hot food would have less calories than raw, as hot food has already started the breakdown of the molecules in the food to lessen, much like how our bodies, burn caloric energy or take the various diet pills on the market that tout thermogenic properties..
I do not have a baby, but according to my friends, baby will only take one brand of milk powder for months. They will reject other brand after they get familiar with certain brand. Where are their sensory specific satiety?
Other parents, is that true? Any research done on that?
Anyone?
There are a couple of possible reasons, I suggest :)
Thus, children at first 6 months of age or so are supposed to be on the milk diet :) so sensory-specific satiety could really be suppressed by biological reasons.
Second, for babies "feeding" is not only feeding :) for newborns there is not much difference between feelings of hunger, thirst, pain and frustration. And if they are used to one brand of powder milk to relief all that symptoms, they can associate its taste with general safety, so baby will refuse all others.
Third reason is that formula milk is not that easy to digest. It doesn't contain digestion enzymes (as breastmilk do), and baby's gut and intestines are not yet mature enough to accomodate easily. So the full bottle of new brand of powder milk can cause some discomfort, even pains and allergic reactions, thus "jumping" from one brand to another is not recommended.
The point is that biologically human babies are supposed to be breastfed :) and the taste of human milk is quite different according to maternal diet. So naturally fed babies can easily and safely get used to regional foods and family eating habits: they learn that "safety" and "pleasure" are not associated with one distinct taste.
I've tried to recall some other causes of people, whose sencory-specific satiety was not working properly, if at all )
It's a little bit offtopic, but could be interesting :)
The first is, of course, Caspar Hauser (see Wiki), who could eat only bread and water and had strong aversion against any other meal.
Second is the old case of Japanese workers on Philippines, who refused to eat anything but familiar food (mostly white rice) and so they got severe avitaminosis up to degree of disability. It was described, if I remember properly, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto in his "Food: A History".
The third was described by Russian doctor and writer Veresaev in his memoirs at the beginning of XX century: some part of army has run out of supply in northern China, so people could have a plenty of local food, but no traditional one (especially rye bread). Officers were eating what without complaints, while soldiers refused to eat any "strange" local food. Veresaev was the first who supposed that it's because most soldiers were from rural areas, where traditional meals were extremely monotonous, while officers has got used to wide food variations since their childhood.
In all of that cases people were eating virtually the same for years and years, starting from early infancy; so they has developed notable aversion to any unfamiliar food. Caspar Hauser was finally taught to eat meat and vegetables, but it took a lot of time and patience of his caregivers.
As a caretaker of a cancer survivor, I am interested in the science or the side effects of cancer therapy on taste, hunger, glucose feeds on those patients who are on chemotherapy and the science behind how it may alter their saiety, taste perception, and hunger perception.
Thank you for your responses. My husband had a stem cell transplant and was confined to a room for 30 days while he built his new platelets. He could smell the food tray as it came into the hepatic unit and began gagging at the smell of the food/or disinfectant and could not eat. Upon returning home, everything I cooked seemed to taste like metal to him (expected) and his best food was chip dip, actually "hell of a good dip",was the label. I even cooked his favorites; mashed potatoes, spaghetti, homemade chicken soup, but no go. He eventually healed and the chemo they had given him wore off and he got his taste and appetite back. Now, three years later his cancer, multiple myeloma, is back and he is on a weekly dexamethasone, cytoxin regime and then velcade for two weeks. The dex dose causes extreme hunger and the cytoxin causes nausea. We eat no processed foods, and focus on organic foods and I cook everything from scratch which seems to help. Just wondering if there is a food source to counteract these drugs and trick the hormones? Our Oncologist is wonderful but this treatment fails to address the taste, eating part of the chemo therapy. It would be wonderful if science could address this difficult part of cancer for all,of,those people under chemotherapy.
Video 2.3 slide 13
Great question and summary. Thanks for helpingbmake this idea clearer.
It is said that a good teacher is one who transmit not only knowledge but also his love for his subject. Professor Chow congratulations for your enthusiasm and know-how.
Dear Professors and everyone,
In the introduction we’re told that dogs spend only about 5% of their energy for their brain, people use 20 to 25%. I’ve many times heard statements like this somewhere in the media. And I always wanted to ask how they had got such results. I always had a suspicion that they had pulled them out of a hat.
As this course’s focus is on the science, I guess I finally have the opportunity to find it out. So could you please refer me to the particular study, I’d really like to know what exactly the researchers were measuring in their experiments and how they calculated these numbers.
My adult son quite often eats one food at a time. He says that is just the way he categorizes the food; it has nothing to do with how it tastes. When he doesn't eat one at a time, he mixes everything together. It doesn't look very apetizing to me.
At one point in time I wrote to Royal Doulton to ask for divided dishes in my china pattern. My children objected if any piece of food touched another kind. My analysis ranged from 1) this a power game and eating is one thing children can control to 2) eating is terrifying for a young child. They do not understand their biological need for food. Nor do they have positive associations with food since everything is new to them. At the time my daughter received a failing grade in "trys new foods" in Nursery School, I decided to look more deeply into the situation. My strategy was to let the child play with one food at a time until she was comfortable with it and then understood she could eat the food to feel full. Eventually we ended this game and moved on to others. She is now 28, married and a gourmet cook. She doesn't remember any of her fear.
Incidentally, the reply from Royal Doulton said many people have made the same request, but they do not consider a divided plate is appropriate for a fine china design.
Dear professors, Thank you for organising this course. This first week has been both interesting and enjoyable. I would appreciate if you could put the reference to the scientific works (publications, website or others) everytime you are quoting scientific results in the presentations. It would allow the interested students to ditch deeper in the methods and results. it will also allow us to understand better the assumptions presented in this course. Finally, this is an important requirement for a slide presentation on a to scientific topic.
Secondly, would you be able to provide a list of lectures beside the presentations. It is quite usual with the other Coursera coursesI have attended up to now.
Thanks a lot, Best regards, Eric
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Fai riferimento alle categorie descritte in http://ells.wiki.farmington.k12.mi.us/ELL+Proficiency+Levels e identifica il tuo livello di competenza in inglese:
Livello 1 – poor (principiante)
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Quale delle seguenti affermazioni descrive meglio la tua esperienza nel settore oggetto di questo corso?
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Ho completato alcuni corsi e/o ho qualche esperienza di lavoro in questo settore.
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Quanti altri corsi (compresi i corsi seguiti online e/o in una scuola) stai seguendo contemporaneamente a questo corso?
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Drinking water will certainly help you feel fuller when you drink water wih a meal, and it may help stave off hunger by putting at least something in your stomach, as others have already mentioned. I have personally experienced the hunger/thirst confusion, I used to be overweight because I didn't drink a lot of water I just ate all the time because I "thought" I felt hungry. To answer your question about what will happen if you try to replace food with only water: this can cause hyponatremia, it's pretty interesting if you look it up. Also sometimes referred to as "water intoxication." Apparently in extreme circumstances this causes death! Hope this helps a bit!
I have been taking screen shots of the slides. It has been helpful. I can go back and consult them if I get a bit lost.
I had my family listen to recording of eating an apple, eating a peach and clipping toenails while eating an apple. They all selected the correct sound for eating an apple. I used a nice crisp Granny Smith. I wonder whether the results would have been different with a different type of apple such as a Macintosh or a Golden Delicious which tend to be a bit less crisp or even a bit mealy?
Hi Delfo, I have given up meat entirely (without regrets) for as long you have been eating meat. I love to eat any kind of vegetables in good portions. Occasionally I enjoy a piece of fish grilled or poached just for the sake of having more proteins intake. I also enjoy cheeses in moderation. Since I gave up meat, I never felt better, my body works better, I sleep better and something that many people remark to me, my skin looks much better. So I believe we can live and being fruiterian-vegetarian-pescetarian or any other way we like it without any problem. One thing we have to bear in mind is to balance well our food intake and enjoynour life.
Thank you Crystal for the website tip is really informative.
It is very interesting discussion and I admit, I didn't read everything, but the first objection is preposition ‘we’. What does it means? All humans? I can say only about my experience. I was vegetarian and when I has cholesterol at 700. The doctors said, I have to eat meat, because my body produce bed cholesterol, when I don’t eat meat. Today I know, I can’t consume casein, gluten and simply sugar from fruits. And for me to say that I am vegetarian or not is simplification. I eat mixed diet based vegetables, gluten free cereals and a little bit meat. Many years I suffer, caused by my lack of knowledge about, what my body can consume (heartburn, gases, obesity). And when speak with many people each of them has a little different diet. I thing, the humans grow up in many different local environment and each group has developed different style of nutrition. When we compare the nutrition style of Eskimos and Brazilian Indians the difference is very huge. Today we observe the mixing process of this different nutrition models and joined with industrialization of food production. This caused many problems for many peoples and many of them even didn’t know it. Therefore is agree, humans are omnivores, but the compose of diet is different and our teeth don’t cheat.
Evolution makes us omnivores, genetic mutations make us intolerant to some kinds of foods, we can't digest them, so they make us sick, anything in excess is going to be harmful for our body. It does not matter how pure, organic or free of pesticides it is. I think is very important to learn about food, its preparation, science behind it, but also try to know about our body, how it works, what it needs to be efficient, where all the things we ingest go. There is not one diet that fits all. We should be happy of being omnivores, because that means whatever we have to eat in order to survive, our digestive system will be able to breakdown, absorb nutrients and our body will keep on.
Though I believe all experiments are at the least good to know, I am finding it hard to relate the sound experiment to a practical or real life situation in comparison to say smell. Where a nice smelling atmosphere contributes to the ambience and the idea that the smell of freshly baked bread or is it cookies can sell a house. Or maybe I overlooked other related elements? Thanks for sharing your experiment anyways, one never knows when such information can come in handy..
Steamed carrots! Mmmm I like raw too.
I too am a chef and unfortunately due to a fall and resulting brain trauma, lost my sense of smell and taste. This course has helped me to work around this by using scientific principles to get the desired result.
A HUGE thank-you to both professors -and the support staff- for a wonderfully enlightening and enjoyable course. I value your time and efforts enormously.
Two days ago I watched a 4-month-old baby greedily sucking slices of lemon.
I would love mp3, too! I can't download the lectures on my iPad :(
Thank you. In future it would be super helpful if all transcripts / presentations were downloadable in one file as 'week 1 reading' etc, as it would make it easier to read on the go online or to print out. It is extremely frustrating having to open every file, cut, paste & save, etc, and I'm quite certain it would be handy for other students too.
Otherwise thanks & keep up the great course.
If you go to the "Video lectures" page, most of the videos have 4 icons on the right. One is for a PDF of the slides, one is the transcript as a text file, one is the transcript as an SRT (subtitle) file, and one is a download link for the video.
Ditto. Is there some problem using iOS here? I thought that I had seen all videos up, but now just week 1. Maybe online courses are still too Procrustean for my odd learning paradigm. :-(
I have it, although I haven't really studied it much as to how it affects my sense of taste. All I know is that sometimes I have to avoid really acidic foods/drinks because it's too painful. Some of the things I have problems with includes lemons, pineapples, tomatoes, vinagar, etc. I've also found that eating rough/sharp foods like chips can exacerbate the issue, but I'm one of those lucky enough to get the tongue fissures as well.
There are at least two types of "hot spicy". The Flavor Bible calls them piquancy (the hotness of chillis) and pungency (the hotness of wasabi, mustard, ginger).
I liked very much the assignments.
Craig, I'm pretty sure that Adrian is talking about drinking chocolate rather than a sauce for food. Drinking chocolate with chilli in goes back to pre-Columbian times, and was offered to people whose courage failed them when they were about to be sacrificed.
Also, there are a bunch of moles. Mole is just the hispanified form of the Nahuatl word for sauce.
Here's my translation of the Mexican Academy of the Language's dictionary of Mexicanisms on mole. Where I wasn't sure whether to leave a term in Spanish or translate it, I've compromised by adding the translation italicised in [square brackets]. m. means "masculine noun".
mole. (From the Nahuatl molli 'sauce'.) m. 1. A type of sauce, prepared with different chiles (e.g., ancho, pasilla and mulato) and tomato, garlic, onion, clove, pepper, salt, cinnamon, lard, chocolate, sugar. || 2. Stew or casserole, typically of turkey, with this sauce (see mole de guajolote [turkey mole]). The state of Oaxaca has been given the name of The Land of the Seven Moles (negro, colorado, amarillo, verde, chichilo [which is black], coloradito, manchamanteles). The most famous mole is the poblano (see mole poblano).
mole aguado [watery mole], see mole de olla.
mole amarillo [yellow mole]. m. 1. Yellowy sauce, which contains chile guajillo (or chile amarillo [yellow chile]), garlic, onion, cumin, green tomato, lard, tortilla dough, chayote, potatoes, green beans. || 2. Stew or casserole of chicken or pork, with this sauce.
mole colorado [red mole]. m. Coffee-red sauce, made of chipotle.
mole de guajolote [turkey mole]. m. Mole, second meaning. Alfonso Reyes wrote of it "that audacious Cyclops which is mole de guajolote arises from a delicate, minute, tiny manipulation".
mole de olla [pot mole] o mole aguado [watery mole] o mole de olla poblano [watery mole from Puebla]. m. Stock of chipotle (or chile ancho and pasilla) with beef, calabacitas [some kind of squash, but I'm not sure precisely which] and epazote.
mole de pepita [seed mole]. m. Stew or casserole of pumpkin seeds, chile verde, meat, calabacitas and broad beans.
mole dulce [sweet mole]. m. Mole which instead of chiles has sugar.
mole negro [black mole]. m. 1. Sauce of chile negro and chile mulato, almonds, raisins, cinnamon, chocolate. || 2. Stew or casserole of chicken or turkey with this sauce.
mole oaxaqueño. (From oaxaqueño 'of Oaxaca'.) m. Mole poblano without chile pasilla.
mole poblano. (From poblano 'of Puebla'.) m. Mole (in both meanings) with the addition of peanut, almond, walnut and toasted bread. It is served sprinkled with toasted sesame.
mole verde [green mole]. m. 1. Sauce which contains green tomatoes, chiles poblanos (or chile de agua, or chile serrano), oregano, epazote, parsley, yerba santa. It can also include pumpkin seeds, lettuce, Swiss chard, coriander. || 2. Stew or casserole of chicken, turkey, or pork with this sauce.
I'm so happy that more people agree with me!! Thanks for your contributions :)
Yes, but they're expensive. VCF, for example, is 1100 euros. Foodpairing (which uses VCF but shows the relationships and not, AFAIK, the actual molecule names) is 130 euros per year.
Thanks a lot!
Gale, the question referred to the taste with/without smell topic, explored e.g. in the last, 5th assignment.
I find reds, pinks to add sweet perception....like strawberries As a child I always chose pink candy floss as I thought it was sweeter Yellows to add sour perception like lemons Greens to add bitter perception like kale
Yes, the coffee is better on a ceramic cup than in glass or in plastic cup.
Shimeji mushrooms? They are between grey and brown.
I'm a big fan of oatmeal with peanut butter. Gotta be crunchy, no sugar. It's got a great texture, not a whole lot of taste. Looks like poop!
Oysters are a bit on the grey side
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/sep/06/how-cook-perfect-southern-fried-chicken
and it was OK. I'm not a great fried chicken fan though and I tried to put too much coating on the chicken. Worth a try though.Geez oicky picky. Perhaps you'd prefer he give it in unaccented mandarin. The prof is doing a tough course in a non native language. Cut him some slack!
I feel the same, I do not think I am peeky on prononciation, but using "so-called" three times in a sentence or before words like "hot water" or "chicken" is annoying. Not to mention the "we can able" saga. To me, this seems like we want to look very scientific and very clever, but we end-up being enthousiastic amateurs. I like the content, I like the presenters as well, but overall the experience is well under the standards and it would not take much to make it better, in fact.
Clearly i think that FALAFEL looks like real meat , the odor and consistency are the same as a meat but actually is made of chickpeas
What about a portobello ravioli, hide the vegetals inside the pasta and use the sauce and cheese to make the small pices of portobello seams meat.
There are chemicals and enzymes that break down meat fibers , making it tender. Some of these substances are natural, such as:
-Lemon juice or lime.
-Vinegar, yogurt or wine.
Enzyme-rich foods such as ginger, pineapple or kiwi.
How to use them? Easy prepare a marinade. You can use all of these ingredients on their own, or making your own combinations, and marinate your meat for a time ranging from 2 to 24 hours, to determine perfect amount of time for you based on your marinade intensity and flavor that you want to achieve. This process breaks down muscle fibers making meat tender and easy to chew.
Cook oxtail after marinating to 'low heat “ to dissolve the connective tissue without too harden muscle fibers.
Here's an Italian recipe that I found on the web among the most classical and most popular with which to cook slow cooker.
Procedure :
· In a pan heat extra virgin olive oil over a medium-high heat.
· Put salt on oxtail and then flours each piece. Arrange pieces in pan and let them cook for 5-10 minutes until they are golden brown.
This step is optional, but browning meat will add more flavor to final dish. Breading in flour tail favors the process of browning.
• Pour the browned pieces in the slow cooker cooking. Add the balsamic vinegar, garlic, rosemary, oregano, thyme and onion. Pour beef broth into the pot and enough wine to completely cover all the pieces of oxtail.
· Remember you should be well immersed, then leave at least 2.5 cm from liquid surface .
• To facilitate pot cleaning anoint slightly not to stick meat or, alternatively, use a model of non-stick pan.
· Cover with lid and cook with low heat for 8 hours
Do not mix oxtail during cooking and do not open lid. Otherwise, pot will lose moisture and heat and you will be forced to add another 30 minutes to cooking time just for having lifted lid for a few minutes.
• Bring oxtail at table very hot. Put meat in a serving dish. Let stand 3-5 minutes before serving at the table.
To increase oxtail tenderness slow cooking is required to dissolve collagen and not to harden muscles.
Suitable pot for long and slow cooking is steel.
This material in fact is not a good heat conductor , heats slowly and slowly cools.
What about this other recipe?
Oxtail cognac
ingrediens:
oxtail
a sprig of rosemary
a few sage leaves
a clove of garlic
a glass of cognac or brandy
1/4 l of milk
salt
pepper
In a pan put the garlic into slices, sage and rosemary, then oxtail and brown slightly over low heat. Wet preparation with cognac, add salt and pepper, and when liquor has evaporated, add milk. Continue cooking over low heat for about 2 hours and serve very hot oxtail, cut into slices and covered with its cooking juices.
Cognac and milk make meat tender.
Yes, in my family we make oxtail stew by braising the meat with a little bit of water in a crockpot overnight on low until the meat is tender. Then we add our vegetables and seasonings then serve.
Hi! I usually cook oxtail because I cook on demand for others, and people love my oxtail. one thing to really make it tender is that you should cut the tail by the joints with a sharpen knife or tell your butcher to do it for you by hand, not with the saws they use. I do not know why, but it comes out more tender, it cooks in less time and the collagen seems to flood easily. Another trick is, if you have papaya around, to marinate meat with it, not just oxtail, but all kinds of cuts that are to be cooked for long time. Pierce the meat, marinate it and cook it. You will see the difference. For slow cooking, I use the oven. I put meats and veggies together with some wine or broth, and I let it stay for hours in low temperature, even 60 or 70 celsius. When it is almost done, I transfer it to the stove and cook the gravy. This way I "work" less and the oven does the rest, while I rest :-)) I hope this helps you!
Hi there I have screen shots of the lecture notes if you would like me to send them to you. It is just the power point outlines but If you like, let me know an email address and I'll send them off.
I have learned a lot in this short time. Enough to motivate me to try baking for the first time. I have a better understanding of what ingredients can affect or enhance a dish. The physiology of our senses introduction was most valuable. Again I apreciate everyone's time and effort in making this class available. I leave you with my family motto- Never eat on an empty stomach!
Dear Prof. King and Prof. Lam Lung + staff
Thanks for all the hard work, it paid off, as I really enjoyed the course; the only problem is it is already over. NOW I got the basics and I want more, so please consider a sequel!
I have been exited over the discussions in the forums as well- it is so interesting to read the comments based on different food cultures.
I will really miss my biweekly food input!
Regards and thanks!
Nancy
My sincere appreciation to the professors, their assistants and all those who are involved in the establishment and running of this course. I have had such a wonderful time learning the science behind some of the cooking practices; I believe I am a better cook now as I consciously try to improve the flavor, colour and quality of all my dishes. Please consider giving us a STAGE 2 of the course. Thank you very much.
I need more time to download the last weeks'contents. Thanks for your kind attention