Food Wooo-ologist!! Part 2

No one likes a sequel but trust me this one is important! If you remember, when I first started this excursion to discover what a food scientist is I wanted to detail....

• What the food science community defines as food science
• What the non-food science community thinks food science is
• Who can be a food scientist
•  What I think food science is
• How I became a brown-eye-bushy-tailed food scientists 

Let's see.....

Food Science, according to the Institute of Food Technologist, is the study "the discipline in which the engineering, biological and physical sciences are used to study the nature of foods, the causes of deterioration, the principles underlying food processing, and the improvement of foods for the consuming public." (IFT is like a big club for food nerds!)But it doesn't stop there! Food Science also includes safety, sanitation, chemistry, food law and sensory science!
Basically food technologist learning and apply a little bit of a whole lot of sciences (like biology, chemistry, engineering, physics etc) but specifically focusing on food! So we learn things like.... how the thickness of pudding changes when it flows through pipes or what is happening to all of your ingredients in a cookie when its baked at pretty high temperatures! We learn what kind of bugs (microbiological bugs that is) will help you make a beer instead of a wine or a gouda instead of a cheddar! Essentially, if it has to do with food, a food scientist has probably learned something about it.

Let's tackle another one.....Who can be a food scientist?
Anyone! So long as you love food, science, learning and have a teaspoon of determination you can be a food scientist! To officially be a food scientist though, you do have to go to college but besides that its...Easy!

Well that's exciting, we knocked off two things on our checklist! I hope that answered something or anything about what a food scientist is. Yay!!! So until next time...
Stay tuned! Stay hungry!
-Taryn

Do you know where fortune cookies came from!?

 I like to watch...TED talks. 

(TED stands for: Technology, Entertainment, Design...don't worry I just had to look it up.)

Anywhose I just stumbled upon this one from a few years ago about a little origin and history of Chinese food in the United States and around the world!

If I could, I'd watch TED talks all day long. 

Jennifer 8. Lee is the author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicals, a history of Chinese Food in the United States.

I hope you enjoy it. Back to studying I go; don't worry I'll be back soon to answer the burning questions of "Whats' a Food Technologist!" (Ahh..keeping the suspense. Classic)

Stay tuned! Stay hungry!

-Taryn

Food What-ologist?! Part 1

I am often asked, "Taryn, what is food science?" To which I often respond, "Do you enjoy to eat products from a store? Well a food scientists prooobbabbllyy made that" To which I often receive a response of "So it's basically nutrition right? Cool." (Insert "McKayla Maroney is not impressed face" here)
You would think after four years of excessive schooling and experience I would have actually formulated a way to describe what food science is!
So what the in the name of Gouda is a food scientists then!?
In order for me to answer this, it's going to take a few posts. So within the next few entries I hope to cover the following with minimal tangents and interludes:

•  What the food science community defines as food science
• What the non-food science community thinks food science is
• Who can be a food scientist
•  What I think food science is
• How I became a brown-eye-bushy-tailed food scientists 
• And maybe if you're lucky I'll divulge how I feel about the term "foodie" (Building suspense...classic)

Having outline the "Purpose" of the upcoming posts to a standard most likely approved by certain professors, I deem it time to hit the sack (of potatoes) to dream of flaky croissants and fluffy frosting. 

Stay tuned! Stay hungry!
-Taryn

Hello Cooking Community!

Food Nerds! Food Geeks! Food Lovers!

Welcome to the latest and greatest documentation of my food adventures. Unfortunately a lot of life is happening so please enjoy an archive of past food-ventures, here! I'll be back shortly!
Stay tuned! Stay hungry!
-Taryn