Monosodium glutamate, or MSG — a food additive that is often found in Asian cuisine — has had something of a negative reputation over the last 60 years. Some food experts insist that's unfair. "To ...
If you’ve ever eaten sauteed mushrooms, fresh tomatoes or Parmesan cheese, then your taste buds have experienced the wonderful taste known as umami. This unique taste is due to the amounts of MSG ...
The “it” food trend of summer 2024 was undoubtedly the cucumber salad made famous by TikTok influencer Logan Moffitt. The internet found Moffitt’s recipe charmingly effortless — thinly sliced ...
When I developed this recipe for jalapeño ranch, I made two batches of the dressing—one with MSG, the other without—and passed it around the test kitchen. The vast majority of our food editors favored ...
In 1908, Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda isolated and patented monosodium glutamate, more commonly known to English-speakers of the 21st century as the often-maligned MSG. Ikeda thought that his ...
Should we or shouldn't we? Looking through the 1968 Duluth News Tribune cookbook, we were drawn to the recipe for Hamburger-Poppy Seed Turnovers, a pasty-like recipe that took first place in the meats ...
Some elderly people lose the ability to taste umami – the savoury taste that defies the other flavour categories of sweet, sour, salty and bitter – as Takashi Sasano and his colleagues at Tohoku ...
I remember the day in the late 1980s when I went out for Chinese food with friends, got a headache and blamed MSG. After all, everyone knew that MSG (aka monosodium glutamate) was the culprit behind ...