Food and Kiki (NaBloPoMo Post #3/Day 2)
How many of you subscribe to podcasts? What type of podcasts do you subscribe to? Audio? Video? Genre? Which are your favorites? Which ones do you recommend to friends?
My favorite podcast subscription right now is Food Science from the iTunes store.
Food science according to Wikipedia is a discipline concerned with all technical aspects of food, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption.
Sounds boring? Kirsten Sanford, otherwise known as Dr. Kiki, introduces this particular science to us to show us that it is not. Having earned her PhD in Physiology (emphasis on Neurophysiology) and having favored television over the academe, Dr. Kiki says, “My shtick is Dr. Kiki reaches out to people who don’t necessarily like science to get them to see it as something enjoyable. My goal is to get people who maybe flunked chemistry or didn’t do well on their science fair project to say, ‘This is really interesting,’”.
Dr. Kiki is love!!!
Every Tuesday and Friday, I wait for Bom to pick me up. Invariably, I'll be waiting for him with my laptop open and my iTunes up and running with Food Science playing. She absolutely rocks in Food Science. Some of the other people in the Department have taken to watching her as well. It's gotten to a point where Santi (nerd!) started going on about isothiocyanates while we were having sushi for lunch last week.
Person #1: Ano yan? (loose trans: What are you talking about?)
FS Viewers: It's not just food . . . it's science.
We also call the few minutes before closing our "Kiki time". Unfortunately, we only have a couple of unwatched episodes left. Fluids and Thermometer. Sad for us but not for you who are yet uninitiated.
Even my 7-year old daughter watches her. Yesterday I caught her and a cousin using my laptop without permission. They were watching, what else, Food Science. "Kuya Nico wouldn't believe me when I said chocolate came from the Theobroma tree", was her explanation.
Seriously. Watch the show. Using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream was way cool (pun not intended). Find out why I now have a blowtorch on my list of must-haves. Ask the 9-6 shift in my department about the Maillard Reaction and listen to us go on about carbohydrates and amino acids.
Check out more of Dr. Kiki and learn fun food facts by clicking here. And remember, it's not just food. It's science. Enjoy!
My favorite podcast subscription right now is Food Science from the iTunes store.
Food science according to Wikipedia is a discipline concerned with all technical aspects of food, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption.
Sounds boring? Kirsten Sanford, otherwise known as Dr. Kiki, introduces this particular science to us to show us that it is not. Having earned her PhD in Physiology (emphasis on Neurophysiology) and having favored television over the academe, Dr. Kiki says, “My shtick is Dr. Kiki reaches out to people who don’t necessarily like science to get them to see it as something enjoyable. My goal is to get people who maybe flunked chemistry or didn’t do well on their science fair project to say, ‘This is really interesting,’”.
Dr. Kiki is love!!!
Every Tuesday and Friday, I wait for Bom to pick me up. Invariably, I'll be waiting for him with my laptop open and my iTunes up and running with Food Science playing. She absolutely rocks in Food Science. Some of the other people in the Department have taken to watching her as well. It's gotten to a point where Santi (nerd!) started going on about isothiocyanates while we were having sushi for lunch last week.
Person #1: Ano yan? (loose trans: What are you talking about?)
FS Viewers: It's not just food . . . it's science.
We also call the few minutes before closing our "Kiki time". Unfortunately, we only have a couple of unwatched episodes left. Fluids and Thermometer. Sad for us but not for you who are yet uninitiated.
Even my 7-year old daughter watches her. Yesterday I caught her and a cousin using my laptop without permission. They were watching, what else, Food Science. "Kuya Nico wouldn't believe me when I said chocolate came from the Theobroma tree", was her explanation.
Seriously. Watch the show. Using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream was way cool (pun not intended). Find out why I now have a blowtorch on my list of must-haves. Ask the 9-6 shift in my department about the Maillard Reaction and listen to us go on about carbohydrates and amino acids.
Check out more of Dr. Kiki and learn fun food facts by clicking here. And remember, it's not just food. It's science. Enjoy!