People often discuss how the region or cultivar affects the way coffee tastes, but what is equally important is how coffee is processed. There are several ways of processing coffee, but the two main ones are natural (dry) and washed (wet) processing. Understanding...
Freezing is a food preservation method that has been used for thousands of years. In the past, the method was to surround food with blocks of freshly cut ice to keep the food’s core temperature below the freezing point of water. However, today’s frozen...
Freezing is one of the most cost-effective ways of extending the long-term shelf life of many foods. Though other emerging technologies, such as infrared irradiation, microwave, pulsed electric field, and ultrasound, are gaining more attention, freezing still remains...
There are hundreds of new frozen food items introduced onto the market every year. Some frozen foods may be gourmet, some gluten-free, while others may be less specialized. Consequently, there are entire aisles in grocery stores completely dedicated to frozen foods....
Freezing has been a preferred method for food preservation around the world for centuries. However, it was not until Clarence Birdseye of Gloucester, Massachusetts that we obtained the means of optimizing and the process. Known as the “Father of Frozen...
The birth of the breakfast cereal began with granula – not granola – a dry, whole-grain cereal created by baking graham flour and bran together and crumbling it. Invented by Dr. James Caleb Jackson in 1863, granula required about 20 minutes of soaking....
