With the arrival of the milder days of September, we are on the verge of leaving summer behind. And with it, the discomfort of a dehydrated body, the consumption of ice-cold beverages, and the mindless but permissible indulgence in frequent feasting with loved ones after overcoming the burden of almost endless pandemic restrictions for the […] The Depurative And Relieving Properties Of Fennel Tea ..read more

Fats are an essential component to a healthy diet, besides contributing to the flavor and texture of many ordinary foods (nuts, dairy, eggs, fish) and also “comfort foods“, such as chocolate. Including some types of fat in the diet can help reduce cholesterol levels and decrease the risk for cardiovascular events and other metabolic chronic […] The Role Of Omega-3, Omega-6, And Omega-9 As Dietary Fats ..read more

We usually assume that all nuts—a generic term referring to hard-shelled pods containing both the fruit and the seed of a plant—conflate into a single macro-category, without due distinctions. Nevertheless, a preliminary botanical specification differentiates tree nuts from peanuts. First of all, peanuts—also called groundnuts—are not nuts at all, but legumes, which are edible seeds […] A Focus On Peanuts, Tree Nuts, And Pine Nuts, To Not Go Nuts ..read more

The COVID-19 pandemic ramifications disrupting our lifestyles have unquestionably been too prominent to pigeonhole in a modest three-year time span. The near-obsessive reactivity to a perceived urgency to improve immune system health was—and still is—a major theme dominating consumer choice priorities and impacting the entire food industry since 2020. Another aspect intimately connected to health […] What Makes Sea Salt Chocolate The Ideal Healthy Comfort Food ..read more

Unarguably, today’s chocolate lovers and shoppers can only be grateful for the wide availability of food-related information online to better guide their decisions on their picks before a physical shelf at their local grocery store or the mobile screen of a virtual shop cart. Nonetheless, the overabundance of opinions and advice scrolled daily on our […] What Is White Chocolate? 3 Misconceptions Vitiating Its Vilification ..read more

Extra dark. Noir. Bitter. Full-bodied.Dark chocolate for true connoisseurs. Coping with the run-of-the-mill brand propaganda, it seems that we—high-quality product chocolate lovers—have made it completely wrong so far. After months—perhaps, years—of education, emotional and financial investment in buying, tasting, and discerning between a note of red fruits, nuts, and jasmine in a bar of dark […] How The Myth Of Black Chocolate Scams Dark Chocolate Lovers ..read more

All chocolate in the world is made through complex steps that start from fresh cocoa seeds, which, if cut open lengthwise, denote unexpectedly romantic hues, ranging from the deepest purple to the palest pink, up to the purest white. How does color change and evolve from purple and pale cocoa seeds to brown chocolate bars? […] Dark Chocolate Starts From Purple And Pale Cocoa Beans ..read more

Non-enzymatic browning is a natural process that produces a brown or “cooked” color in foods without the activity of enzymes, which are cell adjuvants—or, catalysts—for a specific biochemical reaction to take place in an organism. The two main forms of non-enzymatic browning are caramelization and the Maillard reaction. Maillard reactions are essential in nearly all […] A Condensed Guide To The Maillard Reaction ..read more

Those who learned about the centralized forces benefitting from the persistence of meaningless and mortifying emergency measures in the last three years may have heard at some point about one of the most distinguished contemporary thinkers of our times, Giorgio Agamben. Agamben is the Italian philosopher best known for his concept of the “state of […] Giorgio Agamben’s Views On Biopolitics As An Extreme Totalitarianism ..read more

Human desire is unlimited, but our life has inevitable limits. Hence an ontological discontent can ennoble or depress us depending on the horizon in which we place it: as small as our ego, as big as the universe. The Italian journalist and philosopher Marcello Veneziani analyzes our time in such accessible but penetrating words that […] Why Our Dissatisfaction With Life Has Increased—Yet, There Is Hope ..read more