In search of the secrets of flavor
Brussels has one of the largest tram networks in the world, but there’s one tram ride in the city where it’s not the journey, nor the destination that pleases — it’s the food. To paraphrase the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, “This is not a Tram.” Indeed, this is not a restaurant, either — this is the […]
With Europe on edge after the bombings in Paris, it is good to be reminded of the joy of sharing a meal with strangers. But what happens when you don’t know anyone at a dinner party, not even the host? During a recent evening in Brussels, I rang the doorbell of a complete stranger’s […]
Part of what makes eating together so pleasurable, in any language or culture, is the conversation. But when London-based photographer Chris Terry was in Niger photographing an ordinary family enjoying a spaghetti dinner, he was surprised that no one spoke. “It’s a great privilege to have food to eat,” explained the grandmother, the head of […]
Xavier Rennotte, a Belgian beekeeper, was obsessed with recreating the flavor of his first boyhood taste of mead, known as hydromel (“honey water”) in French. And so he used science to track down this fleeting, Proustian taste from his childhood in the Belgian countryside. Read more in Zester Daily, an award-winning online destination for food, wine […]
A Taste of Molecules 