Free Harvard Lectures on Science and Cooking

Events

This fall, Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will again present Science and Cooking, a series of lectures by Harvard professors, chefs, and other food experts.  The lectures are free and first come/first seated, and they take place at 7PM at Harvard’s Science Center (1 Oxford Street, Cambridge).  Excepted as noted, all are on Mondays and in Hall C.  For more information, contact science_cooking@seas.harvard.edu.

  • September  5:  “Science and Cooking: New Understanding, New Tools, New Foods”
  • September  12:  “Energy, Temperature, Heat”
  • September  19:  “The Science of Sugar”
  • September 27:  “Medical Technology Producing Hamburgers” (Tuesday, Hall B)
  • October 3:  “Diffusion and Gelation in Peruvian Cooking”
  • October 17:  “Confluence”
  • October 24:  “Viscosity and Polymers”
  • October 31:  “Emulsions and Foams”
  • November 7:  “Delicious Decomposition: Tales from the Cheese Caves of France”