If you’re here, you either love to cook, love to eat, or love to read about food.  Whatever the case, cooking – the process of transforming raw ingredients into finished food with the desired taste and texture – usually defines the experience of eating, not the raw ingredients themselves.  For example, you may love hamburgers, but you probably don’t enjoy eating raw ground beef. So is it the melt-in-your-mouth butteryness of a good sea bass, the sweat-inducing heat of chiles, or the tang of citrus on your tongue that makes you love cooked food?  None of the above!  It’s the calories.

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