11 Mar
Article for Quantum TimesI wrote the article below for a newsletter called “Quantum Information Times”. I know it has nothing to do with baking which is why I must commit myself to posting something more delicious soon. (Also, as a quick note, photo credit goes to this person: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaz_q6r/2596262040/) The Bachelor in Quantum Information Science and why it [...]
02 Dec
TEDxMcGill TalkHere’s my TEDxMcGill talk about black holes
31 Aug
Just a quick projectSchool is starting. People are moving houses. Projects are being worked on. I have however found the time to make a map of all the places I have visited or wish to visit in Montreal. Color scheme: red=restaurant, blue=bar, yellow=take-out, turquoise=cafe, green=mix. It’s a work in progress so let me know what else needs to [...]
18 Aug
SF day 5: Davis, Berkeley and NapaChloe’s mother is an avid gardener hailing from the south of France. Her backyard and kitchen are teeming with fresh sweet tomatoes, large meyer lemons, succulent fresh figs, carrots, lemon basil, lemon verbanna (for tea), tangelos, quince, kumquat, courgettes, eggplants and even her own bay leaf tree. There was little room on the kitchen counter [...]
15 Aug
SF day 4: All roads lead to TartineI joined forces with Chloe today! We’re both huge foodies and close friends so our adventurous alliance was bound to find something delicious to see and eat. We actually found a lot of stuff. We also worked over ideas for Chloe’s new concept dessert restaurant (she’s an amazing cook!) and if she allows, maybe I [...]
14 Aug
SF Day 3: Sandwich editionWhat a beautiful day! I’m starting to orient myself around San Francisco without the use of maps and I’ve finally grown comfortable to the basic transit system… as well as the discomfort of having paper dollars (seriously America, you make no sense). Started at Caffe Trieste today. Their espressos go up to “Grande” size, which [...]
13 Aug
SF Day 2: Now there’s foodFinally, the run of Caffe breakfasts can begin. Today it was Stella Pastry, and establishment which one patron introduced to his friend as the “best place of pastries, you’ll keep coming here”. And rightly so, everything is quite decadent. Large American portions, and liberal Italian use of sugar, butter and cream. I started today by [...]
12 Aug
SF Day 1: Not a whole lot of food yetI wanna say so many things! This post may be quite long. I’m sitting in the window bed of an 8-person dorm room at the Green Tortoise Hostel in San Francisco. It looks like the picture above. I’ve been up for nearly 36 hours now and I’ve spent most of it sitting down and traveling. [...]
29 Jul
Eureka! Orange Blossom Water finally cooperatesI’ve have never, not once, been able to successfully incoorporate orange blossom water into a single dish. Today, I’m happy to say that the once vanilla substitute is in perfect harmony with carrots, ginger, and oranges in the smoothie above. Unfortunately I don’t think I can publish the muffin recipe as it is straight out [...]
24 Jul
Cream Cheese Chocolate Coffee FudgeThis recipe is super simple to make and as I found out yesterday goes extremely well with tea brewed from fresh mint leaves. I still need to work on getting a thicker texture though, maybe then I can stop calling this “fudge” Cream Cheese Chocolate Coffee Fudge 500g of cream cheese 600g of baker’s chocolate [...]
07 Jul
Purely cookies… and tarteI will only occupy you with cookies and baking seeing as I have no new developments in physics… or if I do then they will take up another whole post on education reform. Anyway, I’ve been wondering what a butterscotch-pistachio cookie would be like ever since my friend Sarah offered to get me free pistachios [...]
29 Jun
Experiments in ClosenessSimply because two things seem very close together doesn’t mean that they necessarily are. Fortunately for hungry stomachs and curious minds one can only find out for themselves through experimentation. As it happens, last week I found such unexpected distances (or disimilarities) hiding in the extra dimensions of fruits and of quantum information physics. I [...]
23 Jun
The Unfamiliar Taste of CardamomFor whatever mundane reason (price probably), I’ve avoided adding Cardamom to my pantry for nearly a year now. Yet it’s exotic and floral sounding name keeps creeping up in my most frequented blog: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So last week I finally dished out the $7 it costs to get a small box and placed [...]
20 Apr
All terms go to zeroPhysics is the study of very tangible things. The equations are imbued with the same sensory emotions as the universe they describe. Variables click into place, brackets swing open and shut, integrals compound their integrands, and derivatives rip through constant terms. It’s the same connection you make when drawing the path of a ball on [...]
09 Apr
Montreal bucketlistThings to do before I leave montreal: Enter Cafe Triangulo Have tea with my stained-glass-maker neighbour Eat at Cuisine et Dependance Eat at Yo-Yo Grow roses on my back porch Write that paper on black holes Repaint my staircase Figure out where to live in London Figure out how to pay for anything London Become [...]