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SP.287 Kitchen Chemistry Seminar at MIT
-Syllabus for Spring 2009
Tuesday, March 31st- Vegetarian Chili and Cornbread and food an their intereactions with your body
Weekly assignment
- We will be making three bean chili and cornbread from a mix.
- We will also be tasting beets, asparagus and artichokes.
- For these experiments we need to drink a glass of water, then eat either beets or asparagus.
- For the artichokes, drink some water, eat the artichoke and then drink some more water. Do you notice any difference in the water?
- Reading assignment from the text (On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee, Hardback version (copywrite 2004) pp 327-328, 314-315, 309, 483-501
- Research papers:1. Effect of Beets and Asparagus on body waste.
2. Medical study on gas identification of flatus.
Additional reading:
- Chili
- Asparagus, beets, artichokes
Homework questions
Chili specific questions:
- What is chili?
- What gives the chili the hotness?
- Why are beans good for you?
- Why do you think that the chili always tastes better after sitting in the refrigerator overnight?
Beans, Asparagus, Beets and Artichoke tasting:
- What causes beans to give you flatulance?
- How can you prevent the flatulance from occuring?
- What is the major component of human flatulance?
- What happens when you eat asparagus?
- What happens when you eat beets?
- What happened after you ate the artichokes and drank water?
  
The dangers of letting your chili burn in your pot is that you have to clean it afterwards! |
