Okay, today we're starting a beer vinegar. You're probably familiar with malt vinegar, that fun thing that makes your fries soggy at the Chip Shop. That's made with an unhopped beer, but today we're using a homemade IPA (full of hops!) to make beer vinegar, so the finished product will likely be way more bitter, just like an IPA.
Note: this might turn out to be a huge disaster, but we won't know for four or five months. Hooray!
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We're working with Paul, who writes the math-focused blog Lost in Recursion, to come up with some mathy classes for the summer. Most importantly though, we need your feedback!
Let us know what topics, from the list below, you think might be most interesting/useful/fun to tackle. Just leave a comment below, and thanks in advance for being awesome. Feel free to suggest your own ideas as well.
Topics!
Sizes of Infinity
Mathematical Art
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We've talked about how to cook onions before, now let's talk about onion-industry-approved facts about how they're sized.
Maybe you've been curious about what a medium onion is. I was, too, until I found the United States Standards for Grades of Onions from the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service. Now, I know we aren't ones to let the government boss our food around, but their definition of a "medium onion" is one with a...
Okay, it's not secret, but we just added a session of Weird Spices for next Monday, May 7th. You'll get to taste all sorts of things that should really only be eaten in combination with other foods, and even get to try out Soma's (in)famous science lemons. Excellent!
I was looking around for something to bake in honor of Thursday's class "The Story of Milk & Cookies," when I realized I knew nothing about cookies or their history. Shall we explore a bit?
Let's start with the basics: etymology. Our American English word "cookie" comes from the Dutch "koekje," meaning "small cake." Bonus points for knowing -je is one of the ways to form the diminuitive in Dutch.1
The reason we Americans say...
