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Do you want to learn some basic principles of science that you could apply to your everyday cooking practice to prepare healthy meals in a healthy style?
If your answer is yes then King L. Chow and Lam Lung Yeung may have offered this course, “The Science of Gastronomy” for you. This course is designed to familiarize students with the basic scientific principles underlying cooking practices, food preparation and the enjoyment of food. The ultimate goal of this 6 weeks long course is to make people recognize the importance of implementing scientific principles in our daily life. No prerequisite of any science background is required. However, the participants should have high school level science knowledge, since in this course various topics from biology, chemistry and physics will be covered. These include:
- Consumption of cooked food
- Physiological and evolutionary control of senses
- Geographic and cultural influences on cooking, and
- The rationale behind preparing different types of cuisines
Issues like how to improve sense stimulation, enhancing the flavour and appearance of dishes by chemical means and modifying the colour of a recipe to make it look more appetizing will also be discussed in the course. The course consists of video lectures, ranging from 3 to 18 minutes in length. Through these video demonstrations the participants will be explained how they can recognize the key ingredients for preparing hygienic, healthy food. At the end of the course, the participants will be able to create their own new recipes by applying some of the scientific principles to traditional recipes.
Professor King L. Chow is a Professor of Life Science and Biomedical Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, whereas Professor Lam Lung Yeung is the Project Manager and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at HKUST.

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