Welcome to my kitchen!

Hi everyone! my name is Sophie and I would like to welcome you all to my journey of discovering the chemistry behind the meals I cook and eat! Cooking has been one of my many passions for as long as I can remember. I am sure that growing up in Portland, Oregon is definitely a big part of why I am such a foodie. There are incredible restaurants, grocery stores, and farmers markets all over the city. I have so many fond memories of time spent in the kitchen; cooking, baking, stirring, sifting, chopping, whisking, decorating, tasting (I could go on and on). I go through different periods of time where I discover something new in cooking to obsess over. When I was younger, all I wanted to do was bake cakes and elaborately decorate them, but there never seemed to be enough occasions that called for cake. There was also my obsession with the TV show Master Chef. This was an entire summer where I somehow got my whole family involved with my own homemade version of the show. Each night, my mom, dad, brother, and I would all take turns choosing the menu for the evening and then making dinner, taking into consideration not only the taste of the dish, but the presentation as well. After dinner was over, everyone except the chef of the night would score the meal. That whole thing may have been more successful if I had actually come up with a prize for the end of the summer…

Anyway, as you can probably tell, food and cooking are things that are quite exciting to me. Chemistry on the other hand has never been something that I have felt a strong pull to. Neither has any kind of science or math, for that matter. I will admit that I enjoyed chemistry in high school more than the other sciences, but I knew then, as I know now, that it won’t ever be something that I pursue in life. I have always known that cooking in a kind of chemistry, but I’ve also always just brushed that fact aside because it has never mattered to me. Now, three classes into Kitchen Chemistry, I am suddenly incredibly intrigued by how food works. I look forward to gaining a better understanding of what is really going on with the chemistry behind any meal I cook.