Stephanie Benight, PhD
And just like that, it’s May! I hope everyone is enjoying Spring, whether it be the warmer weather, gardening, wildflowers, spring cleaning and organizing or all of the above. We’re continuing with our virtual programming.
This month we have an awesome Zoom talk on May 18th. Renowned chef Nik Sharma presents The Flavor Equation, the subject of his new book that explains the science of good cooking, together with recipes that illustrate his points. Nik explores the chemistry of combining ingredients to produce the flavors in his recipes. Mouth-watering flavor descriptions and beautiful photographs are accompanied by attractive charts of graphic correlations of flavors and ingredients.
To make the evening even more captivating, Nik will be interviewed by Dick Zare, Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. Professor Zare is known on the Stanford campus for his colorful freshman seminar, Chemistry in the Kitchen. It is sure to be a dynamic evening, thanks to arrangements made by our SVACS past Chair Jigisha Shah. See the article and poster in this month’s newsletter.
We continue our partnership with the Redwood City Library in conducting Saturday afternoon experiments with middle school students. We need 1-2 volunteers to run an experiment in this Pop UP chemistry series at the Redwood City Library, in person on May 14, 2-3:30. We provide all the materials. Email me to join us, chair@svacs.org.
Additional events for the months of May and beyond are posted on our new website siliconvalleyacs.org and in the Calendar of Events in this newsletter. As always, should you have any feedback or questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at chair@svacs.org.
