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Of puddings and proteases (help with cooking with enzymes)

The subject of puddings arose in #cooking on IRC the other evening, what with the recent thread and differing interpretations of the word in the US and UK. (I concluded it's custard vs steamed/boiled ...

What has humanity been doing for tens of thousands of years to eat meat tenderly? A history of fire, stone, acid, milk, fruit, enzymes, fermentation, and the obsession to 'do ...

If one were to summarize the history of human food culture in a very rough nutshell, it could be called the history of finding ways to make tough things edible. Modern people can go to the supermarket ...