Welcome! I've been writing for more than four decades about the science of food and cooking: where our foods come from, what they are and what they're made of, and how cooking transforms them. More recently I've been working on a book about smells: the aromas of food and drink, but also the many other flying bits of the world that scent our lives. On this site you can find out about me, my new boo
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