Hello,
This week continues the series I started last week about MSG, perhaps the most unfairly vilified ingredient in history.
Last week I explore the discovery of MSG – how we went from having a vague idea that there was a fifth flavour to knowing it was umami and developing MSG as a way of adding it to dishes.
This week, I look at how MSG took over the world. How did it go from the obscure discovery of a Japanese biochemist to a kitchen cupboard staple and the foundation of flavour in countless cuisines?
And, if you’ll forgive a little self-promotion, if all this MSG chat is piquing your curiosity and you’d like to try some, then do check out Honest Umami.
Happy Friday,
Rob
This week’s article
The Story of MSG: Adoption
MSG went from discovery to the dinner tables of half the world in a couple of decades. But how?
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This week’s one interesting link
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
Last week I linked to an interview with Jonathan Haidt about his new book; it seems only fair, in the interests of balance, to link to this rather savage review of it in Nature.
“Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, is a gifted storyteller, but his tale is currently one searching for evidence.”