Now My Wife May Think

A Meringue Is Really Nothing But A Foam. And What Is A Foam After All, But A Big Collection Of Bubbles? And What's A Bubble? It's Basically A Very Flimsy Little Latticework Of Proteins Draped With Water. We Add Sugar To This Structure, Which Strengthens It. But Things Can, And Do, Go Wrong.

The Kitchen's A Laboratory, And Everything That Happens There Has To Do With Science. It's Biology, Chemistry, Physics. Yes, There's History. Yes, There's Artistry. Yes, To All Of That. But What Happened There, What Actually Happens To The Food Is All Science.

The Stubby French Painter Toulouse-lautrec Supposedly Invented Chocolate Mousse - I Find That Rather Hard To Believe, But There You Have It.

My College Degree Was In Theater. But The Real Reason, If I Have Any Success In That Milieu, So To Speak, Is Because I Spent A Lot Of Years Directing, I Spent A Lot Of Years Behind The Camera

What Happens Is That In Each Clump You've Got The Gelatinization Of Starches, Which Happens Very Quickly At The Surface Of The Clump And It Kind Of Forms A Protective Skin Around This Dry Hunk Of Flour.