GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Wagyu, High Standard Manufacturing Company
21 Mar 2016
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Salt is one of the oldest substance in the world. Eggs: most eggs are month and a half to two months old in supermarket, best consumed fresh, fresh egg will float horizontally, spin egg to determine if eggs are cooked. Bog butter, butter buried in peat in ireland: bogs are used to protect the butter, stores well because of anaerobic conditions. Butter is a subject of concern because of fats: butter stick (like a chapstick) Caviar is expensive: salty, most comes from caspian sea, sturgeon. Kobe wagyu beef: a breed of cattle, very expensive. Saffron is expensive: most expensive of all the spices, stigma of a plant, from tukey, hand plucked and fermented. Needhams: butter, shredded coconut, potato, sugar. Eating is a human instinct (eating and sex: we went from being nomadic to being stable, farming, agriculture, development of civilization, industrial revolution.
