The Food Section: Quotable

"The Curious Cook column last Wednesday, about the chemistry of meat color, referred incorrectly to the chemical that binds with the pigment myoglobin to make nitrite-cured meat pink. It is nitric oxide (NO) — not nitrous oxide (N2O), a sedative used in dentistry."

The New York Times on Laughing Gas

Posted by Josh Friedland on Apr 12, 2007 in Science | Link | | |

"One common complaint was sore throats, known in the community as, of course, sword throats..... One individual, perhaps trying to work up to the full-size sword, wound up having 'a bread knife removed transabdominally.' Which easily beats having a bread knife inserted transabdominally."

Scientific American on Sword Swallowing

Posted by Josh Friedland on Feb 20, 2007 in Science | Link | | |