Oh no... It's Chemical!

Sometimes chefs, food critics and journalist loose their reality connect. As it happens in this piece: The point of which is that it is a chocking practice to add chemicals to food in order to make it taste better!
“Food should not be chemistry” says Claus Mayer, Danish celebrity chef.
Mmm… Actually?
Cooking - and the preparation of food in general - can be described as a collection of processes that includes the addition of various chemicals and flavors like sodium chloride* and various ethanol** based solutions, not to mention a multitude of dried plants and colorful colorings. We eat fungi, bacteria, dead insects and other animals, unfertilized eggs, rotten milk and regurgitated nectar,
Modern cooking involves strange processes like (cryogenic) freezing, boiling, frying, burial, fermentation, smoking and long term dehydration.
But somehow the addition of a small amount of monosodium glutamate*** to make stuff taste better is morally wrong? I thought that cooking was about improving the experience of eating?
*Kitchen Salt
**Alcohol or Wine
***MSG also known as "the third spice"

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Arrrh! Been trying to revive these old blog posts. Giving them a fresh look among other things.
These new templates are a bit harder to figure out than expected....
Onwards christian soldiers to boldly go where angels fear to put their things.
:o}

There can be only one

DARPA is at it again. Though their homepage doesn't show it DARPA is simultaneously the most interesting and most scary part of America's armed forces.
As the name suggests "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency" is about military applications of science. Previous projects include such illustrious successes as the Internet and the famous "gay bomb"
Their latest project (that we know of) seems to be a bio-engineered immortal organism.
Seriously!
Follow this link to The Wired.com article and check out the DARPA homepage lists of ongoing research programs. That's some scary stuff. - And remember that a large part of their activities is probably classified.

Light them up!

I turned 50 yesterday.
Thanks to all for greetings and kind thoughts. But I got to tell you: that was a h*** of a lot of candles!

How the brain works....

It's all very delimpified as explained by a true expert.

50 and a new leaf

I'm turning 50 today which is something of a strange feeling. I have a terrible tooth-ache and I have had a rotten year which started by me having a heart attack last january.
So all in all: f**k that!
Did you know, by the way, that alcohol is a very good dental pain extensifier?
Anyways here is a link to a greeting card that says it all: link to greating card that says it all.
At noon today I will be turning over a new leaf....

Apple tablet revealed (again)

From Boing Boing: This is what it looks like! - It really is. Except that this design prototype is from the (19)eighties and designed by the Frog Design company which did a lot of early work for Apple.
As far as I can figure out the screen might have been monochrome and not touch-sensitive if it wasn't complete nonfunctional. Flat, touch-sensitive, full color screens haven't been around for that long!