Tastemaker: Food designer Sarah Masoni's million-dollar palate
At Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center, she uses her most exquisite taste (buds) to help chefs fine-tune their recipes
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Meet the food designer with a perfect palate
As the director of Product and Process Development at the Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center, Sarah Masoni uses her uniquely-qualified taste buds as a "food designer" to help chefs and food companies perfect their products. Lee Cowan reports on someone with most exquisite taste (buds).
Balsamic vinegar, the "black gold" of Modena, Italy
In the city of Modena, in northern Italian, balsamic vinegar has been produced for generations. Once used as a gift among nobility or as a wedding dowry, balsamic vinegar is now a favorite of food connoisseurs the world over. Seth Doane dives into the process of creating a product where some varieties take up to a hundred years to age.
Balsamic vinegar, the "black gold" of Modena
The luxurious liquid has been produced for generations in Northern Italy, where some varieties take up to 100 years to mature
The last straw: Seattle's drinking straw ban
Millions of plastic drinking straws end up as litter, often in the oceans, which is why this summer Seattle became the largest city in America to ban plastic straws in restaurants, to be replaced with compostable or paper options. Tony Dokoupil talks with anti-straw advocates fighting the preponderance of single-use plastic in a throwaway culture, and with representatives of the food service industry in search of alternatives that will be easy for consumers to swallow.
Sparkling water is making a splash
Thanks in part to increased health consciousness, sales of carbonated water is bubbling over
The bubbly market for sparkling water
Welcome to the "Age of Effervescence," when sales of seltzer and sparkling water are positively bubbling over. Serena Altachul talks with seltzer expert Barry Joseph, author of "Seltzertopia," and with Alex Gomberg, the owner of Brooklyn Seltzer Boys, where carbonated water has been produced for generations.
The craving for hot sauces is heating up
The popular web series "Hot Ones," in which celebrities are interviewed while eating violently-hot chicken wings, speaks to the public's increased taste for ever-hotter condiments
Hot sauce has never been hotter
Hot sauce sales are increasing faster than any other condiment. To get a taste of what people can't get enough of, the hugely popular web series "Hot Ones" features celebrities sampling some REALLY HOT foods, and with about 3 million views per episode, the series shows no signs of cooling off. But could correspondent Michelle Miller pass the hot sauce test herself? She decided to put her mouth where her mouth is, and also talks with chili farmer "Smokin' Ed" Currie, who introduces Miller to the fearsome Carolina Reaper, the hottest pepper in the world.
Tater tots go gourmet
Born from the scraps of a French fry factory, the humble staple of American casseroles and cafeterias is now featured in Michelin-starred restaurants
In praise of tater tots
The humble tater tot, that staple of American casseroles and cafeterias, was created in the 1950s when a French fry company envisioned a way to use up all those potato scraps. Today, tater tots are even served in gourmet restaurants. Luke Burbank talks with food blogger Dan Whalen, author of a cookbook devoted to tater tots, and with chef David Kinch, whose Michelin-starred Manresa, in Los Gatos, Calif., has tater tots on the menu.
Picture perfect: Nathan Myhrvold's eye-popping pictures of food
The former Microsoft executive's latest passion is photography, using robots to better capture food at the perfect moment
Feast for the Eyes
Former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold is a man of many talents, from geophysics and space physics to economics – and now, taking eye-popping portraits of food. To get his perfect pictures, which have been featured in art galleries and in a book, "The Photography of Modernist Cuisine," Myhrvold had to design robots to help better capture food at the perfect moment. David Pogue reports.
Bowled over for breakfast
What happened when food blogger Wil Fulton tried an experiment of eating nothing but breakfast cereal for a week? And with egg sandwich sales increasing for breakfast, how are cereal makers trying to re-energize their brands?
Bowled over for breakfast cereal
What happened when food blogger Wil Fulton tried an experiment of eating nothing but breakfast cereal for a week – 82 consecutive bowls? Susan Spencer talks with Fulton about his serial dining on cereal. She also talks with Yale University's Paul Freedman about the history of breakfasts; Dana McNabb, of General Mills, who is bowled over by new varieties of cereal; and registered dietitian Wendy Lopez, who reveals her secret to breakfast smoothies.
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