
UNCATEGORIZED,
BUT INTERESTING
When I come across something useful that I made in the past, and it doesn’t fit with what I’m doing now, I pop it on this semi-secret page…
Beets Reincarnated as Marshmallows - [perfect for roasting]
While it has the color of a Pink Pearl rubber eraser, this flame toasted marshmallow tastes like oven roasted beets. That's because this marshmallow is a beet marshmallow, meant for fire roasting.
Even our food is structured by metaphors: techniques of cognitive mapping in the kitchen
Did you know that a metaphor is responsible for chocolate truffles? This confection is conceptually anchored in the structural architecture of the mushroom! I'm writing a paper on metaphors and food design for a culinary linguistics conference, and I dug this gem up from my old defunct food blog Kitchen Cognition. I'll post the finished abstract before the conference, but in the meantime, enjoy this recipe.