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Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide To Brewing Classic Beer Styles is more than just a recipe book or merely another "how-to" manual, it is an indispensable guide intended for brewers interested in formulating their own beers based on classic styles, modern techniques, and their own vision of the perfect beer. With more than 200 tables, Designing Great Beers offers brewers knowledge on the essence of various styles, giving them the needed insight...
2) Dinner on Mars: the technologies that will feed the red planet and transform agriculture on Earth
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"From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars--and 9 billion Earthlings too Feeding a Martian is one of the greatest challenges in the history of agriculture. Will a Red Planet menu involve cheese and ice cream made from vats of fermented yeast? Will medicine cabinets overflow with pharmaceuticals created from engineered barley grown using...
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This book offers a novel approach to food writing, presenting a history of eating habits and mores through the lens of the technologies we use to prepare, serve, and consume food. It tells the history of food through its tools across different eras and continents to present a fully rounded account of humans' evolving relationship to kitchen technology. From the birth of the fork in Italy as it discovered pasta, to culture wars over spoons in Restoration...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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Si se me descongeló el pollo, pero no completamente, ¿puedo volver a congelarlo? ¿Tengo que prestarle atención a la fecha de vencimiento, o es una mentira del capitalismo apátrida? Si es casero no puede hacerme mal, ¿o sí? ¿Cuál es la forma realmente segura de preparar una vianda? ¿Es verdad que el fuego mata todo? ¿Es riesgoso comer sushi? ¿Y un pancho en la calle? ¿Cómo pudo llegar una bacteria a la torta de cumpleaños si quedó fuera...
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The book is, spread over 12 chapters. Efforts have been, made to provide as many details as possible on quality of vegetable oils obtained from different sources and nutritional significance of different classes of fatty acids, especially the role of saturates, w-6 and w-3 fatty acids and trans fatty acids, as well as other components such as tocopherols and sterols in terms of human health and nutrition. Oilseed meal is a rich source of nutraceuticals,...
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Why is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Why is fizz-less soda such a disappointment to drink, and why is flat beer so unappealing to the palate? Our sense of taste produces physical and emotional reactions that cannot be explained by chemical components alone. Eating triggers our imagination, draws on our powers of recall, and activates our critical judgment, creating a unique impression...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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We are in the midst of an unprecedented era of rapid scientific and technological advances that are transforming the way our foods are produced and consumed. Food architecture is being used to construct healthier, tastier, and more sustainable foods. Functional foods are being created to combat chronic diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. These foods are fortified with nutraceuticals or probiotics to improve our mood,...
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Juntas y revueltas, la ciencia y la cocina han sostenido fructíferas relaciones desde tiempos lejanos. Así, ya en el siglo XIX, respetables científicos impartían cursos de cocina, publicaban manuales sobre las reacciones de los alimentos y tratados de nutrición, con un objetivo claro: trasladar a la cocina la revolución científica y, por qué no, trasladar a la ciencia la revolución gastronómica.
En un menú de cuatro pasos, el gran divulgador...
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Chili is an important solanaceous crop grown in almost every country and valued for its variety of uses. Although India is leading producer, consumer and exporter of chili, the present productivity of 9.2 g/ha can be, enhanced to two-three times with the use of improved technologies and creating awareness among the growers. In the fast changing global context, managing the change on time-scale to become internationally competitive is, considered important....
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For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the modification of crops to produce more nutritious yields. This...
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This book is a compilation of the research works of many scholarly, untiring research scientists, some working all their lives to trace healing values in human foods. The phytochemicals, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and other unlimited nutrients available in the foods do help humankind to keep the diseases like high blood pressure, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, cataract, arthritis, cancers and other non-communicable diseases at bay It is a...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in partnership with the ADB Institute, the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Institute, and the European Union's Support to Modernization of Mongolia Standardization System Project, organized and conducted a second annual Learning Opportunity focused on best practices in the area of integrated trade facilitation, one of the activities implementing the refined CAREC Trade and Transport Facilitation...
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Les glaces sont souvent associées à un savoir-faire complexe qui exige une connaissance technologique. Beaucoup de livres ont été écrits sur le sujet
principalement en anglais. Cependant, peu de livres existent en français. J'ai voulu proposer aux glaciers et aux futurs glaciers un regard nouveau sur la
technologie des glaces, avec de nouvelles façons de les réaliser sans l'utilisation de stabilisateurs pour un nouvel artisanat.
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From the Publisher: Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it. Through a fascinating mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many ways swindlers have cheapened, falsified, and even poisoned our food throughout history. In the hands of people and corporations who have prized profits above the health of consumers, food and drink have been tampered with in often horrifying ways-padded,...
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"Cooking food is one of the activities that makes humanity unique. It's not just about what tastes good: advances in cooking technology have been a constant part of our progress, from the ability to control fire to the emergence of agriculture to modern science's understanding of what happens at a molecular level when we apply heat to food. Mastering new ways of feeding ourselves has resulted in leaps in longevity and explosions in population--and...
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"For succulent results every time, nothing is more crucial in barbecuing and grilling than understanding the science behind the interaction of fire and food. In this book, "Meathead" Goldwyn, pitmaster, national barbecue cookoff judge, and curator of the world's most popular barbecue website amazingribs.com, debunks the myths that stand in the way of perfect outcomes. Along the way, he reveals all the secrets every successful griller needs to know,...
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Science teaching requires special skill, more particularly the chemistry teaching. This book is devised as a handbook for chemistry teachers. Teacher's Handbook of Chemistry encompasses vital information on the following topics. Place of Chemistry in Science; Programmed Teaching; The Background; Role of the Teacher; Methods of Teaching; Aims and Objects of Teaching; Teaching Akil Hole of Laboratory