Homaro Cantu on Miracle Berries, Chewing Tin Foil, and the Best Peanut-Butter Cookies Ever
"We worked on that peanut-butter-cookie recipe for six months."
"We worked on that peanut-butter-cookie recipe for six months."
Homaro Cantu has developed a menu for a cancer patients using the miracle fruit.
‘Times’ columnist Harold McGee is joining scientist Linda Bartoshuk in a discussion of “the science of taste and the chemical underpinnings of flavors and foods.”
Jilted customers threaten to call the authorities. Are tablets the new berries?
A blogger who attended a recent "flavor tripping" party paid $6 per berry.
By the looks of this sign at the Garden of Eden on 23rd Street, the Miracle Fruit berry, which turns sour tastes sweet, may be going mainstream.
If you read the 'Times' feature about Miracle Fruit — the rare berry that, thanks to a protein called miraculin, makes sour, acidic stuff taste sweet — you probably wondered where you could score the stuff, so you could throw a “flavor-tripping party,” à la Supreme Commander.
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