Fibonacci lemonade. Image: Andrea Hawksley.
What does math taste like? Andrea Hawksley recently posted a recipe for Fibonacci lemonade, a drink that is inspired by the famous Fibonacci sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8, and so on. It is a thing of beauty to behold, and as you drink it, you actually taste successive approximations of the golden ratio due to the relationship between the ratio and the sequence.
Her post got me thinking about other mathematical food. Of course, we’re talking here about food whose flavor, and not just shape, actually has something to do with math. (For food that looks like math, check out this post from last year.) Cooking is all about ratios (there’s even a cookbook called Ratio), so my recipe is mathematical because of the ratios of ingredients. In this case, I based the ratios on good old e.
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