The Kitchen Science Club

About this book

Zara is ten and wants to be a scientist, and has been told, gently, that the science kit costs too much this year. Sami is seven and wants dessert. Aunty Prue, who was a food scientist for forty years and stirs her tea like she is calibrating it, hears both wishes at one Sunday lunch and makes the announcement that begins everything: you do not need the kit. You live in one. Every kitchen on earth is a laboratory, every recipe is an experiment that somebody wrote down, and every cook you have ever loved was doing chemistry with their sleeves rolled up. Fetch your aprons. The Kitchen Science Club is now in session.