Day 17
Finished up the lecture on proteins with a wonderful discussion of milk and cheese! Since the students made cheese themselves last week, they were very interested to hear the application of protein chemistry that we learned yesterday and the details of how it works – especially that cheese is essentially milk. Casein, whey, calcium, and rennet were topics of the day. At 11 am I administered the midterm exam – they were pretty anxious about it – but no tears or panic attacks (yay!). Lunch with Brian at Gilli was a delicious lasagna for me and spaghetti with scampi and lemon – beautiful presentation with a little guy staring out you! Pictured also is Brian’s Panna cotta last night at Casa Toscana, and a gorgeous cappuccino Eataly this morning. I graded the midterms all afternoon – they did well – average was 83% and high was 96% - woo! Our friend Greg Payne arrives any minute – tomorrow is the Hidden Gems of Florence tour!