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Caramelization of sugar: my all-time favorite chemical reaction. (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Scientists say: play with your food

I have a passion for cooking that’s uncommon for someone with so little culinary talent. Recipes involving chemical changes to ingredients (in other words, endeavors beyond assembling a sandwich), have a fail rate of about 25 percent in my kitchen. But it recently occurred to me that cooking is one of the primary ways I…

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