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Wine Hackers Are Making Wine Without Grapes or Fermentation
This is how Northern California startup Ava winery is sidestepping grapes and fermentation entirely—and trying to replicate Dom Pérignon in the process.
Food Hacking: Electric Fork
Simon visits the inventor Hiromi Nakamura, who is researching the concept of "electric taste." Hiromi has developed a fork and cup that zap your taste buds with electrical currents to make food taste saltier. We wanted to experience the shock ourselves.
Three Thanksgiving Recipes from Watson, the Computer that Won Jeopardy
The best part about Thanksgiving is going home to all of the delicious food that's been cooked for you by a computer.
We Flavor-Tripped Thanksgiving So You Don't Have To
There's nothing worse than eating food with as much zest as wet cardboard, so we decided to eat miracle berries—which make naturally sour things taste sweet—when we visited dear old Mom and Dad for Thanksgiving, because their bland cooking sucks hard.
Chocolate Scientists Used Super Yeast to Change the Taste of Cocoa Beans
It's possible to create a whole range of boutique chocolates.
Pizza-Flavored Ice Cream Has Arrived in LA
Pizza has reached peak cultural saturation. So in 2015, are we ready for pizza-flavored ice cream? If you ask gonzo-delicious ice-cream empire Coolhaus, the answer is yes.
Faking Taste With Electrical Shocks to the Tongue Is Our Dystopian Food Future
Taste+ promises to make something like Soylent as appetizing as foie gras without changing its nutritional content in the slightest.
Sommeliers and DJs Have More in Common Than You Thought
In high end restaurants, wine can be very theatrical and formal; you’re talking about palate, depths of aromatics, and obscure tropical fruits. I don’t want people to get embarrassed, I want them to ask for a glass of soul, or a glass of pop.
Flavor-Changing Milk Is an Astoundingly Needless Invention
A former chemistry professor has come up with a milk drink that looks like a lava lamp and switches from tasting like plain to chocolate to strawberry. But do we want it?
Infected Beers Can Be Delicious Mistakes
It's flu season, and like any living creature, craft beers can get infections. Sometimes, the infection is out of your control and can make your beer taste like skunk and wet cardboard, or if you're lucky, green apples.
We Asked a Taste Expert Why Some Foods Make People Gag
Can you inherit taste preferences from your parents? Why do siblings sometimes grow up with wildly different feelings toward certain foods? We called up Dr. John Prescott, a specialist in the human perception of taste and smell, to find out.
An Israeli Designer Is Turning Giant Dough Balls Into Edible Art
Who needs ovens when you have a small army of designers packing industrial heat guns that produce 1,000 degrees of baking firepower? Omer Polak did just that with his Blow Dough project, turning the humble pita into a piece of tasty sculpture.