European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Microwave baking is no cakewalk Lyric Vansant United press International aking sure food is flavorful and aromatic is a bigger business than Ever thanks to microwave ovens. They Are quicker than their conventional counterparts bul have created Lime consuming challenges Lor flavor chemists. The microwave oven and products built for in Are driving factors in the Haver development Industry says Bob Pellegrino a vice president o Cincinnati s Fries i Fries where 250 flavor chemists and other flavor Iles work. Allma or Lood companies Aro researching and developing microwavable products Pellegrino says Consumers have created a big microwave food flavor Industry. Microwaves by some estimates Are used in about 70 percent of american Homes and she number is growing steadily. Surveys show Consumers expect Lood they prepare in the microwave to table just like food from he conventional oven Pellegrino says. Yet because of conditions within the microwave in would be difficult to deliver the same kind of taste without flavor companies. There Are technical problems with foods cooked in a microwave. A big Factor is that f he temperature does t teach 212 degrees in a 1 thai s Why. For savor chemists baking a cake in a microwave in t a cakewalk. When you put cake Bailer into a microwave the surface of the cake in t going to dehydrate As in a conventional oven because the temperature in t As High says Pellegrino. Thai Means you Don t gel Browning and the crusty Type of flavor expected f of cakes. One of the challenges far us As flavor chemists is to simulate that Browning Teschion in our flavor labs so we can Olfer that Type of flavor profile to a product. For a cake mix for example we develop a flavor Hal starts As a liquid convert Illo a powder and add in directly to the microwave cake  there Are two classifies Lions of flavors natural and Arl Ilicia. Extra cd from Vanilla Beans is an example of a natural flavor a chemical known As benzaldehyde which produces a Cherry flavor Falls into the artificial category. All artificial flavors in the United Stales have to be approved by the food and drug administration Pellegrino says. But Fries & Fries pronounced freeze and freeze emphasizes natural flavors. Consumers Wani natural products and we re responsive to Hal  says Pellegrino. We spend a great Deal of Limo developing natural flavors. We Lake Boot Noff  Foo Obj ingredients extracted from natural products and find ways to process them so they simulate baking roasting and frying flavors Consumers not Only expect Lood cooked in a microwave to table Good they want in to smell Good too. There s not Loo much Aroma with microwave  says Pellegrino. We re trying to improve Aroma generation. A cake hat s baking in a conventional oven usually fills the Kitchen Wilh Atoma. But in Tho microwave those Aromas Don 1 generate because of insufficient temperature. So we develop flavourings to put in the product that produce an  a major microwave and flavor Industry Success Story is Popcorn. Popcorn tale have dramatically increased because of microwaves Pellegrino says. Popcorn is a healthy snack but it was a big Challenge Lor flavor companies a develop Buller flavors to incorporate in the Oil in a microwave Popcorn Pouch. The object is to evenly distribute flavor Over the Popcorn Asil  beyond microwave products flavor chemists Are working on foods like ice Cream trying to create a creamy flavor in products Wlsh less fat. We be been modestly successful and Are still developing it Pellegrino says. There s a kit of consumer concern about cholesterol and food companies Are trying to reduce cholesterol while still mail awning a great flavor. We re trying to develop flavor systems which can be used in products Wilh reduced cholesterol and Yel taste just As   m-.--j-, f -._, those overlooked veggies Bojoh Demers United press International Aye Levy has written cookbooks in English French and oven hebrew yet in Light of her latest prefect eat your vegetables has to sound like the fairest phrase in any language. Levy already familiar to Many food lovers by Way of her Book chocolate sanitation has made a giant leap from thai admittedly decadent pleasure loan area Ell too often overlooked vegetables. Those of course Are not the conned Petit Poison one s youth the rubbery Green Beans the mashed potatoes from a cardboard Box. Yel with equal certainty they Are not the undercooked under sauced and under seasoned Yawner currently pasting for healthy and Chic. I Hope the recipes will speak for  said Levy in new Orleans for the recent convention of the newspaper food editors and writers association. An american Tio finds vegetables Boring if he reads he names of these recipes will catch some of fro  indeed some of the titles in vegetable creations Dullon $2 .95 Aio a Mouthful in to Best sense of the word. Cauliflower timbales with Tomalo butter sauce. Zucchini stuffed with red Pepper Puree. Vegetable bouillabaisse. The Altfas and their attendant recipes excited Levy s publisher so much in tact it decided vegetable Tea loom would not Only appear but would appear As the lira o a series called fresh from Fiance. Nothing could be bolter news to Levy and her israeli born husband and associate Vokler. Levy first made a name for herself penning cookbooks Lor la Varenne cooking school in Paris and she still seems proudest of a fish Cookbook she wrote with famed French chel Fernand Chambr Olte. 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