by Len Fisher | 1 Jun 2004 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
Daily Mail A scientist boils an egg in the same way that James Bond did in “From Russia With Love”. Bond demanded that his eggs should be boiled for exactly three and one-third minutes, which is just the time that comes out of the scientific equation for... by Len Fisher | 8 Mar 2004 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
QE2 Cruise February 24, 2004 – March 8, 2004 1. Science in Everyday Life From cleaning wine stains off a carpet to removing recalcitrant screws with damaged heads, science has an answer. 2. The Science of Gastronomy Leading chefs are increasingly using science...
by Len Fisher | 26 Nov 2003 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing, Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
Millenium Lecture, University of Bath Len Fisher, an Honorary Research Fellow in the Physics Department at Bristol University, has drawn wide-spread media attention in recent years for his unusual applications of science to everyday activities such as biscuit dunking,... by Len Fisher | 1 Sep 2003 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
“Memories of Oxford Food Symposia” – how does one disentangle them? Even though I have only attended two symposia, it feels like twenty because of the richness of the environment, both in terms of ideas and in terms of people. Others will have memories of ideas... by Len Fisher | 1 Sep 2002 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking, St Antony’s College, Oxford, Sept 2002 The talk comprised two sections. The first was a brief scientific introduction (strictly for non-scientists!) outlining how oil-soluble flavour materials become distributed in the oily and...