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Sylvia Rose
17 hours ago8 min read
Flavors of Coffee: From Harvest to Homestead
Coffee lovers welcome the smooth, rich aroma of the morning brew. The journey from coffee tree to flavorful cuppa Joe is a captivating...
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Sylvia Rose
3 days ago4 min read
Isolate Lactic Acid Bacteria for Artisan Flavors
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) create delicious flavors and tangy textures in dairy products like cheese, yogurt and fermented milk. These...
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Sylvia Rose
3 days ago7 min read
Five Sugars: Glucose, Maltose, Fructose, Sucrose, Lactose
Sugars are primary consumables and influence how bodies function, often in surprising ways. Sugars are essential for overall health. The...
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Sylvia Rose
4 days ago6 min read
Mold Spores: Power Packs of Creation & Purpose
Mold (mould) is a multi-faceted entity, with properties from food enrichment to serious health hazards. Central to survival of mold are...
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Sylvia Rose
5 days ago5 min read
Krausen (Kräusen): Bubbles of Brewing Success
Krausen is a joyful moment in brewing and fermenting. When krausen appears, fermentation is under way. When it falls, fermentation is...
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Sylvia Rose
6 days ago6 min read
Yeast: Process from Culture to Consumer
Yeast is a cultured fungus with many hidden talents. A single-celled organism, it transforms simple ingredients into delicious foods and...
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Sylvia Rose
7 days ago4 min read
How Lactic Acid Bacteria Make Yogurt
Yogurt is enjoyed throughout the world, created by the natural industry of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). Transformation of milk into yogurt...
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Sylvia Rose
7 days ago6 min read
Milk into Cheese: Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB)
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) work to help transform milk into cheese, creating unique flavors and textures. They ferment sugars, mainly...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 29, 20245 min read
Lactic Acid Bacteria: Team Players of Fermentation
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are industrious microbes working to transform ingredients such as milk into cheese and cabbage into sauerkraut...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 29, 20247 min read
German Romanticism: Nature & Emotion
German Romanticism (Deutsche Romantik) is an influential movement emphasizing profound emotions, the beauty of nature, and the power of...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 28, 20246 min read
Pan: Wild Rustic God of Music & Flocks
Pan is the wild rustic god of shepherds, flocks and music. Originating in Arcadia, Greece, Pan embodies the essence of wilderness. He...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 24, 20243 min read
Silvanus: Roman God of Wild Lands & Fields
Silvanus is a rustic Roman god of wilderness, fields, livestock, boundaries, music and fertility. His name comes from the Latin silva ...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 20, 20248 min read
Wild Yeast: Microbes Acting Naturally
Wild yeast is a fascinating part of the natural world. Ubiquitous and often overlooked, it's a coveted organism of science, well-known by...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 19, 20246 min read
Yeast: Microbiology of Bread & Food Making
Yeast is a unicellular fungus essential in daily life. This gift of nature is used in baking leavened bread and in food fermentation. Its...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 19, 20245 min read
How Yeast Transforms Sugars to Booze
Yeast is a single-celled fungus essential for fermentation. It transforms simple sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide, a process...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 16, 20245 min read
GI Yeast Hunter: Bacteroides thetaiotomicron
Bacteroides thetaiotomicron is found in the human gastrointestinal tract (GI) as part of the normal digestive system biota, along with...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 15, 20245 min read
Sublimation & the Aludel: Medieval Alchemy
Sublimation is a process of refinement, purification or extraction of specific elements. The aludel, a unique alchemical apparatus, is...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 14, 20246 min read
Spores & Yeast: Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Yeast spores appear as perfect spheres, found in diverse environments. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a common spore-forming yeast, known...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 13, 20245 min read
Chalk (CaCO3): Bounty of the Primal Seas
Chalk is fundamentally calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and takes hundreds of millions of years to form. This seemingly mundane mineral has a...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 11, 20245 min read
Brownian Motion: Physics & Phenomena
Brownian motion vividly illustrates the appearance of chaos at a microscopic level. This phenomenon, first observed by botanist Robert...
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