Post 2 - Food Science, Chemistry, and Alcohol
Science, Chemistry, and Alcohol The imminent and extemporized second post I have a deep, hobbyist's interest in food science. Unfortunately, as with so many of my interests: I can't claim to have a propensity or predisposition for it (them? well.. here "science"). Cooking, on the other hand, has been - throughout my life - my only successfully (or consistently successful) creative endeavor. Before I navigate away from that fairly provocative admission, please indulge this brief departure. I prefer to describe my type of art making not as a creative art, but that of a re -creative art. From the mouth (or fingers, as it were) of a musician the above statement - I hypothesize - might seem, if not unlikely, a gross equivocation. Maybe you're thinking: You're an opera singer, and a bass player by trade. Music is a creative art. As an opera singer aren't you also an actor? You're a "creative-type!" Don't you also draw? Don't you ...