Physics of Cooking: How to eat your lab

This talk will describe the popular course taught at Harvard on Science and Cooking. The aim of the course is to motivate non-science majors to study, and enjoy, physics by using cooking as the theme. Each week consists of a lecture on cooking given by a renowned chef and a lecture on physics given by Harvard faculty. The lecture by the chef is used to motivate the students to see how the physics they learn has a direct impact on something they are interested in. The class is a science class, with the curriculum set by the physics that is taught. There is an equation used in each class, and the student clap for each equation presented. There is also a lab for the course where the students use food to make physical measurements on the food they cook. This is the only class where students can eat their lab.