Daniel Whiteson
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Podcast Appearances
That's the key.
That's the key?
Absolutely.
I love tahini.
I'm a sucker for halva or anything with tahini and it's sesame seeds.
That's my kryptonite.
We're going to try that.
I always heard that baking is science.
Yeah, it's chemistry, right?
There's transformations, things change phase.
It's incredible what happens there.
And it's a great example of emergence.
You see stuff happening on the bigger scale, like this dough turns into cookie.
You don't know what's going on underneath the microscopic details of what's happening with all the baking powder and the vinegar or whatever.
It's like magic to you, right?
There's some microscopic detail and then boom, it turns into a cookie.
And you don't always have to know, you don't always have to care.
But it's incredible you have this experience on the macroscopic scale, and then there's all this stuff happening underneath.
Were you baking before you became a scientist, or did you say, you know what, I've got an idea?
I've got a sweet tooth.