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Dr. Arielle Johnson is a chemist, biologist and food scientist. She was the science advisor to Alton Brown on the TV show good eats, is a director’s fellow at MIT media lab and has worked with acclaimed cooks and scientists across the world. She is the chief scientific advisor for Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, which was founded by Rene Redzepi - who also wrote the forward for a recent book, Flavorama: A guide to unlocking the art and science of flavour (available to buy here - https://www.ariellejohnson.com/buy)
On the episode we discuss the building blocks of taste and aroma, why you should never underestimate a humans capacity to smell, what it’s like to be a chilli plant, the tools that scientists use to analyse flavour, smoke, campfires and evolution, how ai and biotech might shape the future of flavour, cooking with insects, our favourite flavour molecules, and much more.
This episode is available to watch on Youtube in 4k with chapter makers so you can single out the bits that interest you most.
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Colin Dunn is a whisky educator and collector and one of the best known ambassadors for malt whisky in the UK. This is a wide ranging conversation about malt whisky covering producing regions, production, marketing, new and old distilleries, luxury whisky, along with a tonne of anecdotes from Colin. You're in for a treat.
We are switching Spotify episodes to audio only for the time being, as it makes it much easier to include an introduction to the episode. If you prefer it this way or the previous way (with no intro) feel free to let us know in the comments.
Colin is on instagram as @colindunnwhisky
I am on instagram as @tristanstephenson
This episode is sponsored by Fever-Tree mixers.
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Sean Finter is a hospitality coach and mentor who has worked with hundreds of clients over the past 20 years to help them improve profitability, hire better, optimise their business operations and generally perfect the craft of hospitality.Trawling Sean's social media, I offered him 10 of his own quotes with which to frame a conversation around hospitality, business, motivation, efficiency and sustainability.
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Ian Burrell is a bartender, brand owner, and rum ambassador. He is best known as The Rum Ambassador and as the founder of RumFest, as well as the co-founder of Equiano rum. This is a wide ranging conversation about the culture, classification and love of rum. To support the podcast please subscribe!
Thanks to our sponsor: Fever-Tree
Ian's book is available to buy now - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rum-Tasting-Course-Flavor-Focused-Approach/dp/0241664578
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Charles is a professor of experimental psychology at Oxford University, the author of Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, and the head of the The Crossmodal Research Laboratory, which explores the interactions between senses when we experience flavour. Charles also won the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize for Nutrition for his work on the 'sonic crisp'. On the episode we discuss the evolution of flavour, the differences between taste and flavour, how our tongues and noses work, learned flavour associations, the impact of sound, texture, temperature, colour and weight on flavour perception, the tongue map, imagined flavour, Louis Cheskin and how corporations manipulate flavour through shape and packaging, 'sonic seasoning', desserts that make you cry, hairy cutlery and much, much more.
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Buy Charles' Book, Gastrophysics
This episode is sponsored by Fever-Tree
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Alice Lascelles is an award-winning drinks journalist, author and presenter. On the episode expected to find out why I don’t garnish my martinis, the bizarre way that Hemingway liked to drink martinis, Ian Fleming’s tip for ordering a martini in a pub, why an espresso martini IS a martini, whether a £25 Martini is really worth it, how Alice found er guest shift at Quo Vadis, what it was like being part of the founding team at Imbibe Magazine, the current state of Non-alc, Alice’s experience judging the ‘Leafies’ aka the world tea awards, the rise of the Speaksleezy, and much more.
Buy Alice's new book The Martini: The Ultimate Guide to a Cocktail Icon: https://www.alicelascelles.com/books-the-martini
