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Editorial Calendar: The Atomic Kitchen

These are some of the topics we will be tackling over the next year with "The Atomic Kitchen." Sponsorship packages are available.
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DATE TOPIC
02/27/12 Intro; Keeping Eggs from Turning Green
03/05/12 Caramelizing Onions
03/12/12 Staying Sharp
03/19/12 Coffee and Asthma
03/26/12 Cooking with Beer
04/02/12 Tenderizers
04/09/12 Curdling
04/16/12 Why Onions Make You Cry
04/23/12 Acidosis
04/30/12 High Altitude Baking
05/07/12 Salt Instead of Cooking Oil
05/14/12 Preservatives
05/21/12 Free Water (Spoilage)
05/28/12 Edible Flowers
06/04/12 Explosive Eggs
06/11/12 Healing Power: Cayenne Tea for Heart Attacks
06/18/12 The Brown Bag
06/25/12 Searing Meat
07/02/12 Food to Avoid when breastfeeding
07/09/12 Dry curing
07/16/12 Salt as a Sweetener
07/23/12 Seafood & Milk
07/30/12 Cooking with Liquid Nitrogen
08/06/12 Healing Power: Vitamin D
08/13/12 Brining
08/20/12 Positive and Negative Caramel
08/27/12 Vitamin C: Expediting Pharma Metabolism
09/03/12 Knife-Sharpening tools
09/10/12 Healing Power: Cinnamon for the Heart
09/17/12 Marinades
09/24/12 Pressure Cooking
10/01/12 Shelf-stable foods
10/08/12 Refrigerating bread
10/15/12 Keeping fruits
10/22/12 Lemons As an Alkaline
10/29/12 Dry Heat vs. Moist Heat Cooking
11/05/12 Sharp as a Knife
11/12/12 Citrus rinds
11/19/12 Healing Power: Iron, Man
11/26/12 Capsicum
12/03/12 Boiling Tea
12/10/12

12/17/12

12/24/12

12/31/12
















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