Advanced Kitchen Chemistry

Peanut butter raisin muffins.

A batch of freshly baked peanut butter raisin muffins on a cooling rack. (Image courtesy of Aayesha Siddiqui.)

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MIT Course Number

5.S16

As Taught In

Spring 2002

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

This seminar will be a scientific exploration of the food we eat and enjoy. Each week we shall have a scientific edible experiment that will explore a specific food topic. This will be a hands-on seminar with mandatory attendance of at least 85%. Topics include, but are not limited to, what makes a good experiment, cheese making, joys of tofu, food biochemistry, the science of spice, what is taste?

This course is the second in a series of two courses in kitchen chemistry. The prerequisite to Advanced Kitchen Chemistry is ES.287 Kitchen Chemistry, which is also on OCW.

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Patricia Christie. 5.S16 Advanced Kitchen Chemistry. Spring 2002. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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