Neeraj Krishnan

Neeraj Krishnan

10h

There is a conspiracy against healthy eating.

How do you explain the fact that potatoes are so easy to grow. Having started out in South America and spread worldwide by the Spanish. How is it that they can be sliced into 1mm thickness while retaining shape and when fried create a crisp texture, deep rich flavor,... See more

The umami generation process accelerated by breaking cultural things into discrete marketable parts through which they become even more consumable and easier to mix into novel, delicious combinations, often across different sensory domains. These combinations could be unstable – as in actually plain dumb, dysfunctional, dangerous – because they... See more

I wonder if this blandness of our diet doesn’t explain why so many of us are overweight and even dangerously so. When things had flavor, we knew what we were eating all the while — and it satisfied us. A teaspoonful of my mother-in-law’s wild strawberry jam will not just provide a gastronome’s ecstasy: it will entirely satisfy your jam desire. But,... See more