NHNick Huemmer

Food Science Field Notes · Vol. I

Notes on food, making, and useful work.

A public notebook by Nick Huemmer, food scientist and inveterate maker.

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Nick Huemmer holding up a freshly made flour tortilla in his kitchen
Field note No. 001Flour tortilla, home kitchen

Contents

What I’m working on

  1. IFood ScienceIngredients, process, texture, and the questions behind them.
  2. IIProjects & MakingUseful things, prototypes, tools, and material experiments.
  3. IIIWriting & NotesA small collection of observations worth keeping.
  4. IVAbout NickFood scientist, maker, and reader in Richmond, Virginia.
“Observe carefully. Change one thing. Taste again.”

The working method, whether the material is food, fabric, wood, or code.

A short biography

The archive

An earlier chapter

Notes from several years spent learning software in public, preserved here as personal history.

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