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Pic’s history of meat processing
The Fascinating History and Use of Ascorbate
The Future of Food Processing
- Nitrite Free Bacon: Barriers against clostridium botulinum
- Restructuring of whole muscle meat with Microbial Transglutaminase – a holistic and collaborative approach.
The History of Bacon, Ingredients and related technologies
The Master Butcher from Prague, Ladislav NACHMÜLLNER
The Prehistory of Food
- 01. How did Ancient Humans Preserve Food?
- 02. An Introduction to the Total Work on Salt, Saltpeter and Sal Ammoniac – Salt before the Agriculture Revolution
The Salt Bridge
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The main habitat of earthworms is the earth. Commonly found feasting on interesting living or dead matter. These are unusual and untold stories from the world of food science from the present and ages past.

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