My friend Gordon was telling me about the time he visited a flour mill. He watched as they prepared the flour for white bread, and what he saw blew his mind (and turned him off white bread forever). They poured bleach into the flour, the same kind of bleach Moon Knight would use to […]
Kidney Health (I Kidney You Not)
With all the crap you ingest every single day, and the sheer volume of toxic junk your kidneys remove, you owe your kidneys a big fat thank you. We all do (which is probably why there is a World Kidney Day). Especially with the increasing amount of prescription drugs, additives, preservatives and other unpronounceable chemicals […]
Be a Supertaster - Part One: The Function of Flavour
Democritus, the Greek philosopher (born 460 BCE - died 370 BCE) was the first to define the four tastes we know as sweet, sour, salty and bitter. He conjectured that the different tastes on our tongues were actually differently shaped “atoma” or “indivisible units”, creating the sensations of flavour. For example, he described sweet as […]
