Glass House Project: Breaking the Rules

Posted by Nils Noren In late 2007, I participated in a panel discussion at the Philoctetes Center about the five senses. Each of the panelists represented one of the senses; obviously, I was there to talk about taste. The other participants were Greg Calbi, master sound engineer, worked with such artists as John Lennon and […]

We Interrupt This Blog to Bring You Regis Philbin.

Posted by Dave Arnold Well, The FCI hosted a movie premiere party last night for the new documentary “Food, Inc.” The students cooked for the glitterati. It was a great success. Of course, we had to skÃ¥l these guys. We will post more on Friday, but for now we’ll leave it at this: I spent a […]

Spin Gel Clarification

Posted by Dave Arnold Purpose: Clarify difficult-to-clarify lime juice Techniques Used: Gel clarification, centrifuging The holy grail of clarification is lime juice.  Lime juice doesn’t last long enough to gel clarify, can’t be heated enough for traditional clarification, doesn’t filter well, and takes 48,000 g’s to spin in a centrifuge. In short, it’s a clarification […]

Corny Corn McCorn. The Corn Syrup King.

Posted by Dave Arnold Tomorrow the school is hosting a premiere party for the movie Food, Inc. The movie rightly comes out against the factory food system here in the U.S. Our dependence on monoculture corn is called out in particular. I thought it would be hilarious to serve some fancy-dan corn syrup at the […]