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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (physics) 
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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (physics)
 at 
Harvard University 
Overview

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

Duration

16 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (physics)
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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (physics)
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Harvard University 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • The chemical and physical principles that underlie everyday cooking and haute cuisine techniques
  • How chefs can use enzymes to make foods that would otherwise be impossible
  • How to use the scientific method to learn how a recipe works, and find ways you could improve it
  • How to think like a chef AND a scientist
More about this course
  • In this course, which investigates physical transformations in food, we will be visited by world-famous chefs who use a number of different styles and techniques in their cooking
  • Each chef will demonstrate how he or she prepares delicious and interesting creations, and we will explore how fundamental scientific principles make them possible

Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (physics)
 at 
Harvard University 
Curriculum

Elasticity

Viscosity

Emulsions and Foams

Advanced Phase Behavior

Enzymes

Baking

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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (physics)
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Harvard University 
Faculty details

Michael Brenner
Designation : Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics and Harvard College Professor
David Weitz
Designation : Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Physics
Pia Sörensen
Designation : Preceptor of Science and Cooking and HarvardX Fellow, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Physics

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