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The secret history of the invention that changed everything and became the most profitable product in the world. Odds are that as you read this, an iPhone is within reach. But before Steve Jobs introduced us to 'the one device', as he called it, a mobile phone was merely what you used to make calls on the go. How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story you won't hear from Cupertin...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-06-22 Género:Técnicos y profesionales > Ingeniería 9,49 €

Juntas y revueltas, la ciencia y la cocina han sostenido fructíferas relaciones desde tiempos lejanos. Así, ya en el siglo XIX, respetables científicos impartían cursos de cocina, publicaban manuales sobre las reacciones de los alimentos y tratados de nutrición, con un objetivo claro: trasladar a la cocina la revolución científica y, por qué no, trasladar a la ciencia la revolución gastronómica. En un menú de cuatro pasos, el gran divulgador italiano Massimiano Bucchi traza una histor...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-05-01 7,99 €

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NEW NETFLIX SERIES 'It's not often that a life-changing book falls into one's lap ... Yet Michael Pollan's Cooked is one of them.' SundayTelegraph 'This is a love song to old, slow kitchen skills at their delicious best' Kathryn Huges, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York Times Top Five Bestseller - Michael Pollan's uniquely enjoyable quest to understand the transformative magic of cooking Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking wi...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-04-23 9,49 €

Meat eating is often a contentious subject, whether considering the technical, ethical, environmental, political, or health-related aspects of production and consumption. This book is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout their evolution and around the world. Setting the scene with a chapter on meat’s role in human evolution and its growing influence during the development of agricultural practices, the book goes on to examine m...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-03-18 33,99 €

Ice Cream , 7th Edition focuses on the science and technology of frozen dessert production and quality. It explores the entire scope of the ice cream and frozen dessert industry, from the chemical, physical, engineering and biological principles of the production process to the distribution of the finished product. It is intended for industry personnel from large to small scale processors and suppliers to the industry and for teachers and students in dairy or food science or related disciplines....

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-01-17 72,99 €

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this volume provides a contemporary overview of food processing/packaging technologies. It acquaints the reader with food preservation processes, shelf life and logistical considerations, as well as packaging materials, machines and processes necessary for a wide range of packaging presentations. The new edition addresses environmental and sustainability concerns, and also examines applications of emerging technologies such as RFID and nanotechn...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-02-25 179,99 €

*** "Jamie Goode is a rarity in the wine world: a trained scientist who can explain complicated subjects without dumbing them down or coming over like a pointy head. It also helps that he's a terrific writer with a real passion for his subject." - Tim Atkin MW, Observer This revolutionary book is the only in-depth reference to detail the processes, developments and factors affecting the science of winemaking. Jamie Goode, a highly regarded expert on the subject, skilfully opens up this complex s...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-06-03 Género:Técnicos y profesionales 3,99 €

El sistema APPCC (Análisis de Peligros y Puntos de Control Crítico) es el instrumento más valioso con el que cuentan los operadores alimentarios para garantizar la inocuidad de los productos alimenticios. Además, en los países de la Unión Europea y en otros muchos distribuidos por los cinco continentes, el sistema APPCC es un requisito legal. Una vez que se ha desarrollado el plan APPCC,aplicando los principios del Codex, y se ha procedido a su implantación en laindustria alimentaria, es ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-01-01 16,99 €

“Delivers an enthusiastic introduction to nutritional epidemiology . . . Using simple illustrations and his trademark humor to demystify scientific analysis that doesn't always prove cause and effect, Zaidan empowers readers to make their own dietary decisions.” —Shelf Awareness , starred review Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. George Zaidan reveals what will kill you, what won’t, and why—explained with high-octane hilarity, hysterical hijinks, and other things that don’t begi...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-04-14 10,99 €

Paul Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat—real meat—without the animals. From the entrepreneurial visionaries to the scientists’ workshops to the big business board­rooms—Shapiro details that quest for clean meat and other animal products and examines the debate raging around it. Since the dawn of Homo sapiens some quarter million years ago, animals have satiated our species’ desire for meat. But...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-01-02 15,99 €

The authors of The Perfect Meal examine all of the elements that contribute to the diner�s experience of a meal (primarily at a restaurant) and investigate how each of the diner�s senses contributes to their overall multisensory experience. The principal focus of the book is not on flavor perception, but on all of the non-food and beverage factors that have been shown to influence the diner�s overall experience. Examples are: the colour of the plate (visual) the shape of the glass (visual/...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-07-10 23,99 €

Esta obra comprende el estudio de la materia prima, el cerdo, incidiendo en la domesticación del animal, la obtención de razas mejoradas, las explotaciones porcinas y sus sistemas de crianza, e incluyendo las características propias de las distintas razas, da paso a la descripción de la línea de la carne y al desarrollo del concepto de calidad intrínseca de la misma. Selección, elaboración y procesos de curación del jamón se abordan de manera rigurosa y crítica, sin perder de vista en...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-12-19 28,99 €

INDICE: Introducción. Etiquetado de los alimentos: normativa legal. Etiquetado nutricional: declaraciones nutricionales y de propiedades saludables. Otros modelos de etiquetado nutricional. El consumidor. Conclusión. Glosario de siglas y términos. Bibliografía.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-12-15 4,99 €

ÍNDICE: Introducción. Composición. Aspectos nutricionales. Grasas de la dieta, salud y enfermedad. Aspectos toxicológicos: toxicidad producida por componentes naturales, componentes mayoritarios, componentes menores, toxicidad producida por compuestos de alteración, alteración de aceites y grasas, influencia de procesos tecnológicos, efectos de los compuestos de alteración, toxicidad producida por contaminación. Bibliografía.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-12-18 5,99 €

ÍNDICE: Introducción. Intoxicación paralizante: organismos productores, propiedades químicas, toxicología, métodos de análisis. Intoxicación diarreica: organismos productores, propiedades químicas, toxicología, métodos de análisis. Pectenotoxinas. Yessotoxinas. Intoxicación amnésica. Toxinas emergentes: espirolidas, prorocentrolidas, gymnodiminas, pinnatoxinas, azaspirácidos. Conclusiones. Bibliografía.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-12-15 5,99 €

Discover how to butcher your own meat and make homemade sausage With interest in a back-to-basics approach to food on the rise, more and more people are becoming interested in butchering their own meat and making high-quality, preservative-free sausages. With easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations, Butchery & Sausage-Making For Dummies offers readers a look at how to butcher poultry, rabbit, beef, pork, lamb, and goats. The book will also explore sausage-making, with tips and recipes,...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-02-15 13,99 €

Innovations in Food Packaging addresses selective topics of functions of food packaging to modify the traditional notion of this process. This book is organized into five parts. Part I focuses on the fundamental theories covering physical chemistry background and quality preservation of foods. Parts II and III discuss active packaging research and development and modified atmosphere packaging of fresh produce, meats, and ready-to-eat products, respectively. Part IV talks about edible and biodegr...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2005-07-20 159,99 €

Wine Flavour Chemistry brings together a vast wealth of information describing components of wine, their underlying chemistry and their possible role in the taste, smell and overall perception. It includes both table wines and fortified wines, such as Sherry, Port and the newly added Madeira, as well as other special wines. This fully revised and updated edition includes new information also on retsina wines, rosés, organic and reduced alcohol wines, and has been expanded with coverage of the l...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-10-13 154,99 €

For most people giving up the day job and moving to a beautiful area of France and living off the vines is an impossible but delicious dream. In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband decided to sell up in Britain and emigrate to the Dordogne. Their idea was to buy a house with a few vines attached and employ someone to tend to the wine while they earned their living with some financial consultancy work. There followed a series of disasters: the stock market crashed leaving their small holding ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-01-11 9,49 €

The principles of lean manufacturing – increasing efficiency, reducing waste, lowering costs and improving control – may be applied to any industry. However, the food industry is unique, and creates unique demands. The political, social and economic importance of food is unrivalled by any other form of produce, as is the scrutiny to which the manufacture of food is subjected. For the food industry, lean manufacturing is not simply a cost-saving strategy, but is directly linked to issues of s...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-02-02 72,99 €