Ever cooked a meal with high expectations only to find it tastes disappointingly flat? There are lots of reasons this can happen – think out-of-season ingredients, spices or herbs that have lost ...

Brewers cultivate house cultures and often pull together different yeast strains that work in tandem with each other to create flavors and aromas that cannot be found elsewhere. Kveik (pronounced ...

A new book has explored how replicating meaty tastes and textures could encourage more people to switch to sustainable diets.

When he drank the contents, he tasted a new, strange flavor. Suddenly his head was spinning ... fungus that is invisible to the naked eye: yeast. It took several hundred years before quality ...

Mushrooms add a rich savoury flavour to a lentil bolognese; a punchy spoonful of yeast extract will boost the flavour of the ragu further. Serve with pasta, or use in a vegetarian or vegan lasagne.