Nosh Box

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If you've ever baked or fried or roasted or grilled anything, you've used the Maillard reaction. It's how food gets flavorful and aromatic and crispy when it's cooked. But... how does it work?

Today in Nosh Box, we live our best food science lives:

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Did you know we have a podcast? Every Tuesday, along with our newsletter, we release a podcast edition hosted by @jaredography that also explores the food world! Today, I went to a supermarket and pointed out mind games they use to make you spend money:
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"Are you buying soy sauce?" a woman asked me recently at Trader Joe's. (We were in front of the soy sauce.)

"Yep!" I said. She suggested I try coconut aminos, a sweeter and less salty alternative.

I took her advice. Today, we explore this new food trend:
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.@CynthiaNixon's order of lox & capers on a cinnamon raisin bagel sent New Yorkers into a tizzy. (I'm sure they'd say it was cinn-ful.)

Today, we explore why people care so much about what politicians eat, and why they go out of their way to eat in public
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"Lettuce is a vehicle to transport refrigerated water from farm to table."��@TamarHaspel

"I will ride for iceberg lettuce 'til the day I die"—@hels

Can't find iceberg? "Substitute waxed paper."—@MimiSheraton

Today's #NoshBox: Why is iceberg so divisive?
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[Jared Kaufman @jaredography]

.@getNoshBox is hosting a free prize giveaway! Everyone who signs up for my food newsletter by next Thursday, or tells a friend to subscribe, will be entered to win a kombucha brewing kit from Life's a Booch. Sign up at https://t.co/0Kwo0KBN2O. More info:
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Béarnaise is a classic French sauce with an earthy flavor, perfect for steaks. But it's easy to mess up — it can be too grainy, too broken, too scrambled, too thin.

We pulled together perspectives from chefs and food scientists to help you nail it:

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My Heart Will Go On... for really good Dijon mustard.

Until the '80s, the only mustard sold in most stores was the squeezable yellow stuff. But really, there's a huge variety. Who do we have to thank for getting stores to sell better types of mustard?

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Ah yes, the universal emotions: fear, happiness, indignation upon opening a bag of chips and finding it only half-full of chips and half-full of… just air?

Why is there so much wasted space in chip bags?! Turns out, there's actually a good reason for it:
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Did you know that yesterday was #CevicheDay?

Ceviche is a Peruvian dish that consists of fish "cooked" in lime juice. How does it work?

Read all about it in #NoshBox's "To Ceviche Their Own"

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What would you do-o-o...for a Klondike Bar?

Turns out, people will do a lot of wacky (and criminal) things. But how did Klondikes come to be? And how are they different from Eskimo Pies?

If you missed this #NoshBox issue last week, give it a read today:

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Why focus on straws? Activists hope they're a "gateway plastic" to get us to think more broadly about how many single-use plastic products we waste.

Inside the campaign to #StopSucking — and why it might not be so friendly to folks with disabilities:
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🎵 'Cause you're hot then you're cold... 🎵

When it's as hot outside as it is on this Memorial Day, you might reach for a cool glass of lemonade. But hot drinks could actually cool you down better.

What?! Today, we look at the evidence for hot vs. cold:
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Kombucha is made from a slimy, rubbery, puck-shaped disc of bacteria and yeast called a SCOBY (which stands for "symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast") and it's... not pretty. It makes a good drink, though — but how healthy is it really? Check it out:
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There are four components of the perfect grilled cheese: the bread, the cheese, the grill, and the soup — for dunking, of course. Today on Nosh Box, we tell you how to game each one so you can live your best grilled cheese sandwich life: https://t.co/LjL8fnhSPu

[Jared Kaufman @jaredography]

Inspired by @hels's deliciously crispy-looking #HairDryerChicken, today's @GetNoshBox is about all the ways you seriously need a hair dryer for your kitchen — but only if you want better chicken, cake, grilled meat, s'mores, and chocolate, of course.
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We all know the #1 time to buy Peeps is after Easter, aka now, when they're mega-cheap. But did you know 25% of people like Peeps a bit stale (er, aged)? Or that Peeps' indestructibility confused scientists? Or that they're mostly sugar? (OK, predictable.)
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There are almost no blue foods, but too many red fruits — plus, the raspberry red dye used till the '70s caused cancer. The solution? Blue raspberry.

Turns out, blue raspberries do exist, but the artificial flavoring has more pineapple and banana anyway
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Feeling ins-π-red on #PiDay2018? Check out The #NoshBox Guide to Darn Good Pies before the national holiday ends!

We'll fill you in on what it takes to put together the best pie the world has ever seen. Don't flake out on us now!
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