Tuesday, August 25, 2009

"Snickers is almost a perfect food"

A blog post I wrote for C&EN about food texture, here.

Breaths of chocolate, no sweat research

Now, you can indulge in one of the world’s finest flavors without gaining weight. How so, you ask? It has become possible to, say, sit at a chic café and inhale chocolate to your heart’s content without the threat of accumulating cellulite. All you have to do is online-order a pack of Le Whifs: lipstick-sized tubes filled with chocolate particles that you puff into your mouth for a cocoa sensation. Calorie count? Less than one.

Continue reading on C&EN, here.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Work-and-play fabric, translucent concrete

Say it's raining on the day of a board meeting, but you still want to bike to work—and afterward ride to that new restaurant that opened downtown—without changing your clothes. Now you can.

Continue reading on C&EN, here.