jlam | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 19 2006 | food, agriculture, horticulture, harvest, plums, Prunus maritima, Cornell, Cornell University, Cornell Beach Plum Project, Tom Whitlow, Ithaca, New York
At Cornell Orchards, beach plums, commonly found on coastal dunes but now one of the newest fruits harvested this year, have become an ambitious Cornell project to turn the unusual plant into a crop.
A thriving cottage industry for jams made from local beach plums demands ever more, but plums remain inaccessible due to small stands, limited access to lands where they grow and government restrictions against “poaching”. Even on Cape Cod where the plants are native, beach plum condiments are gourmet, says Tom Whitlow, associate professor of horticulture and head of the Cornell Beach Plum Project. Last year he distributed puree to several Ithaca area restaurants, which incorporated it into desserts and a sauce for grilled duck.
In the orchards late August and early September, students picked the fruits, then made jams and syrup with food scientists at the processing plant at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva NY, which Cornell Orchard Store then sells.
—Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell Chronicle
jlam | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 11 2008 | food, recipe, mayonnaise
Old-fashioned (or new fashion) delicious and tangy boiled mayonnaise tastes better, has less fat, and costs less than store-bought preserved mayonnaise. Here's an awesome and simple recipe. I adapted it and skipped the heavy-bottom sauce pan and double boiler in favor of an old glass mayonnaise jar as the inner vessel, which saved me another dish to wash.
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jlam | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 05 2007 | tempeh, soy, food, fermentationManfred Warmuth, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and probiotic food enthusiast, presents this workshop on making tempeh, a cultured soybean product. In traditional tempeh making, the starter culture often contains other beneficial bacteria that produce vitamins such as B12. In western countries, it is more common to use a pure culture containing only the fungus Rhizopus oligosporus.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh
- jlam | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 18 2006 | coffee, health, food, nutrition, diet, antioxidant, diabetes, oxazole
Coffee contains antioxidants that help control cell damage that contribute to the development of disease. It's also a source of chlorogenic acid, which has been shown in animal experiments to reduce glucose concentrations.
Several compounds in coffee may contribute to its antioxidant capacity, including phenols, volatile aromatic compounds, and oxazoles that are efficiently absorbed. Researchers found that a typical serving of coffee contains more antioxidants than typical servings of grape juice, blueberries, raspberries and oranges. Four to six cups of coffee are fine, but after six the gains start to diminish.
“We were surprised to learn that coffee quantitatively is the major contributor of antioxidants in the diet both in Norway and in the US,” said Rune Blomhoff, professor of nutrition at University of Olso.
jlam | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 16 2006 | food, fitness, training, health, medicine, cherries, quercetin, athletics, melatonin, anthocyanin, CherryPharm, John Davey, Olga Padilla-Zakour, Cornell, Cornell University
John Davey quit his job as a Wall Street banker to team up with Cornell food scientists and create CherryPharm, a tart cherry sports drink found to prevent inflamation and improve conditioning.
Research by Padilla-Zakour, Malachy McHugh, director of research at the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma, and Declan Connolly, associate professor and director of the University of Vermont's Human Performance Lab, published June in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed strength loss was 22% with a placebo but only 4% with cherry juice. Trainers of athletes who have tried the drink say it works. "The New York Rangers have integrated … CherryPharm's all-natural juice into the lives of our players. We feel less sore, sleep better and recover faster," said Rangers' medical trainer Jim Ramsay.
—Linda McCandless, Chonicle
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