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Cooked Food Made Us Human Wikimedia CommonsRaw food takes too long to digest and offers too few calories to grow a human brain. Cooking it is the key. Gathered around a blazing fire, our ancient ancestors probably huddled to pass the archaic kebab, munching cooked meat and figuring out how they might share it and plan to get more of it. Eating cooked food allowed these early hominids to spend less time gnawing on raw material and digesting it, providing time–and energy–to do other things instead, like …
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Saveur assistant editor Anna Stockwell is a woman of many talents — she cooked a whole goose last year — but when we brought the Phantom v642 super-slow-motion super-camera over to the Saveur office, she was on her lunch break. So we just captured this footage of her and her apple. Even ordinary phenomena are fascinating to watch when they’re filmed at 1,000 frames per second! This one reminds us for some reason of a wildlife documentary. You can check out more slow-motion Phantom v…
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Inari Sushi DigInfo TV When the need arises for a very specific type of robot, odds are pretty good it exists in Japan. A new Japanese robot can make 2,500 fried tofu rolls per hour, puffing little triangles of tofu with air and stuffing them with rice with precision and speed. It is so careful that the designers, based at Suzumo, compare it to a syringe: The fried tofu skin is opened quickly, and then more air is blown in so the rice can be inserted. Inari sushi rolls are fried tofu triangles or square…
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Mixing Mash Food scientist Candice Lin pushes potatoes through a ricer before sterilizing at 250°F. Cody PickensPreserving food isn’t hard–the challenge is in the flavor (or lack thereof, or disgustingness thereof)
Barb Stuckey hands me a plastic tray of mashed potatoes sealed with an opaque layer of film. “We packaged these up over a year ago,” she says. The United States Potato Board has asked Stuckey and her colleagues at Mattson, a commercial food lab in Foster City, California, to devise a way to …
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The Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, the third-annual event under that title, returns to Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., on June 2-3. The event this year is titled, and#8220;Moments in Time: a Celebration of the History of Motorsports.
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Donuts Food cravings may be triggered by a drop in blood sugar, which can lead to a drop in self-control. Obesity can heighten cravings. Christopher Stevenson/Getty Images
Maybe, but it’s going to take a long time. For the past 200,000 years or so, fatty and sugary foods were hard for humans to come by and well worth gorging on. Fats help maintain body temperature, sugars provide energy, and craving such food is hardwired: Eating fats and sugars activates reward centers in the brain.
Scientists are findi…
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In this installment of our food trucks series, we take a look at Concrete Cuisine, which operates out of an old ice cream truck.
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Since mid-May 2011, Jeff Aqualina and Justin Kava of Concrete Cuisine have been parking their 1996 E350 diesel Ford bus in private lots around metro Detroit during lunchtime, serving the workers at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Valassis Communications and…
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Nissan’s NV commercial vans can be configured to work with plumbers, electricians, and shuttle drivers, but Nissan’s newest NV concepts are thinking more delicious: the company will unveil two NV Food Truck concepts at tomorrow’s Los Angeles Auto Show.
Nissan will march out two concepts, the Coolhaus Truck and Grilled Cheese Truck, at the Los Angeles Auto Show tomorrow. Both are based on the NV2500 High Roof model, which has about 77 inches in vertical space between its load floor and roof. It als…
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Nissan’s NV vans, the company’s first entry into the commercial vehicle segment in North America, will be taken a step further at the 2011 LA Auto Show. The company has teamed up with The Grilled Cheese Truck and Coolhaus Truck to combine their takes on two food classics with a pair of custom-outfitted Nissan NV vans.
The two vans will be put to work on the streets of LA and inside the Convention Center’s West Hall where they will be providing sandwiches (cheese and ice cream respective…
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