Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) of food has the potential to drastically impact both culinary professionals and laypeople; the technology will fundamentally change the ways we produce and experience food. Several imposing barriers to food-SFF have been overcome by recent opensource printing projects. Now, materials issues present the greatest challenge. While the culinary field of molecular ga...

There has been an increase in the number of women taking herbs then go and deliver in urban health care centers. The midwives manning these institutions have no formal training in traditional medicines hence are least prepared for the outcomes. The aim of the study was to establish the perceptions of the midwives working in urban health care centers on the use of herbs in labour. The study adop...

KEY POINTS * Herbs are non-woody plants or plant parts claimed to have medicinal, therapeutic, or performanceenhancing values. Herbs can be sold as fresh or dried products, liquid or solid extracts, tablets, capsules, powders, in drinks, in energy bars, or in tea bags. * In the United States, herbs are not required to be standardized, so there is little consistency among different batches of pr...

This paper refers to a cultural ensemble of groups of northwest Amazonia who selfdesignate as the People of the Centre (Witoto, Ocaina, Nonuya, Bora-Miraña, Muinane, Andoque). The production of food and the production of ‘true people’, in People of the Centre’s discourse, are referred to with a same set of terms; and the instruments and technical transformations of cooking (heating, pounding, f...