Vicki Cobb

"Science never tasted so good! Dig into a feast of fun--where you're the scientist and the kitchen is your laboratory! Discover what it takes to make sugar crystallize into rock candy, what moisture has to do with popping popcorn, and how proteins are essential in making cakes and muffins rise. And after you've tested your theories and made some amazing discoveries, you can actually eat your results!" -- Page [4] cover.

Answers nine questions about motion, explaining Newton's Laws of Motion, gravity, centrifugal force, and other principles of movement.

Text and suggested activities explore the sense of taste, how it works, and how it can help us detect which foods are sweet, sour, salty, or spicy.

Junk food is so delicious. The tastes of candy bars and smells of movie popcorn are almost irresistible. But junk foods have a secret. It's not an accident that we enjoy junk food so much. Science plays a major role in making and packaging these foods.