Cooking the Tree of Life returns
The State Museum's culinary celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday is coming up in February. From the museum's site:
The ingredients in the food we eat every day are some of the most extreme examples of evolution, from ridiculously hot peppers, to super sweet grasses, to flightless birds. In celebration of the 201st anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, the State Museum presents three cooking demonstrations that highlight the extreme evolution of domestic food. Each demonstration teams a local chef with a biologist sous chef, and the two prepare the meal together, giving both a culinary and scientific perspective on the main ingredients.
Here's a clip from last year's series.
This year's lineup includes peppers (evolution of capsaicin), sugars (the sweet tooth), and birds (big-breasted dinosaur descendants).
The talks/demostrations are each Wednesday in February at 7 pm. They're free.
We've heard they're a lot of fun (be sure to sit close to the front for samples).
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