Plating. Color wheel. Pointillism. And what A Sunday on La Grande Jatte teaches us about serving a feast of colors for the eyes.
Tag Archives: colors
If I micelle so, you are looking fat and white.
Light scattering. Fats. Micelles. And why whole milk is whiter than fat-free milk (and sweetened condensed milk is yellow).
A cut above the rest.
Precision. Plastics. Usability. And how a pair of scissors’ design made it a kitchen staple.
As-salting the greens.
Chlorophyll. Organic acids. Atom and ions. And one very simple trick to keep greens green.
Eggs-tra white.
Light scattering. Molecular size. Wavelengths. And how physics and chemistry turn transparent egg white to opaque white.
See stars and the Sun in your kitchen.
Cooking temperature. Wavelengths. Electromagnetic spectrum. And what the colors of space tell us.
Do you see what I see?
Photoreceptors. Cone cells. Tetrachromats. And why different species see different colors.
