MATCHA DRINKS
six proportions · grams, millilitres, degrees
MATCHA GRADES
ceremonial, premium, culinary — what is behind the words
PUERH AGEING
sheng and shu · what the years do and when to drink
MINIMUM MATURATION
how long each spirit must sit in the barrel before it may bear its name — fifteen legal minimums on one scale
SPIRIT HOMELANDS
where the law lets Scotch, bourbon, cognac and tequila be made — seven spirits, three scales of place: a country, a part of one, a drawn zone
SPIRIT RAW MATERIALS
what the law lets whisky, rum, brandy and tequila be distilled from — ten spirits, seven raw materials, two regulations
SUGAR IN DRINKS
how many sugar cubes hide in a glass — from water to cola, by the USDA reference
BLACK TEA
grades, six leaves and four blends · in China it is "red tea"
TEA PLANT CULTIVARS
assamica against sinensis · leaves at one scale · six cultivars
GREEN TEA
six leaves · water, time, number of steepings
OOLONG
from 15 to 80 % oxidation · leaf shape · seven steepings
SIX KINDS OF TEA
one plant · the oxidation scale · seven processing steps
YELLOW TEA
yellowing under a cover · the step no other tea has
THE ISO 3591 GLASS
the only wine glass with dimensions instead of adjectives
WINE TEMPERATURE
neither from the fridge nor from the room — not one of them
BABY-LED WEANING
cutting fruit and vegetables so a baby can feed itself: the shape, the size limit and what is never served
THE BOILED EGG
soft, medium and hard: the minutes on the timer — and the degrees at which the white and the yolk set
THE HAMBURGER
the ratios of the mince and the five steps that decide the result
CAST IRON SKILLET
seasoning in 6 steps and everyday care — after the official Lodge instructions
COOKING SALTS
table, kosher, sea and flake: the sodium in the very same spoon — per the makers’ labels, drawn to true scale
FIRST FINGER FOODS
the size, the softness and the shape of a piece for a baby who feeds themselves, by the NHS guidance
THE 9 MAJOR FOOD ALLERGENS
the foods US law singles out by name, and the two ways a label is allowed to say so
SUGAR IN FRUIT
grams of natural sugar per 100 g of fresh fruit — and how much water sits beside it
HERBS AND SPICES
what pairs with what, how much to use and what swaps for what — per extension publications MF3539 (Kansas State) and FN198 (NDSU)
CULINARY KNIFE CUTS
julienne, brunoise, bâtonnet and the family of dice — the Culinary Institute of America dimensions, drawn to true scale
SAFE MEAT TEMPERATURES
USDA minimums inside the cut: three numbers for all meat, the rest time, and an oven plan
NEAPOLITAN PIZZA DOUGH
four ingredients in the proportions written into an EU regulation
POUND CAKE
four equal weights — a recipe whose name is its ratio
PROTEIN IN FOODS
grams per 100 g · animal and plant · and the state each one was weighed in
THE SCOVILLE SCALE
chilli heat from the bell pepper to Pepper X: four peppers drawn to true scale, and the ladder of varieties
SOURDOUGH BREAD
the timeline, hydration and grams — per King Arthur Baking’s Naturally Leavened Sourdough Bread
TABLE SERVICE
which side each thing arrives from, in what order the table is served, and what the hand may touch
ENGLISH ALPHABET
26 letters · 5 vowels · 21 consonants
THE BRAILLE ALPHABET
63 characters of the cell in seven lines — 26 letters, the digits, the punctuation and 8 prefixes
ENGLISH PUNCTUATION
twelve marks and the three strokes: a name, a job and one working example for each
GREEK ALPHABET
24 letters · names and where science uses them
IRREGULAR VERBS
the 100 you meet most: base · past · past participle — grouped by the four patterns, not shuffled alphabetically
LANGUAGE FAMILIES
who is related to whom — on the numerals three and two in twenty-seven languages
LETTER TEAMS
40 letter combinations and the sounds they spell, in IPA, with one example word each
SIGHT WORDS
all 220 Dolch service words in five grade groups, Pre-K through third — with the top of the Fry frequency list up front
BARBELL MATHS
the IWF colour code and the plate count: from target weight to each side of the bar, no calculator
BENFORD’S LAW
the first digit of a number: why a one turns up more than six times as often as a nine, and in which sets that is true
THE BIRTHDAY PARADOX
how many people it takes for two of them to share a birthday — and the same count for codes and fingerprints
THE CLOCK FACE
two hands, twelve numbers — how to read the time
THE COLLATZ CONJECTURE
halve the even, triple the odd and add one: the road of 27, the record holders and a problem nobody has solved
DIVISIBILITY TESTS
what to read in a written number instead of dividing it: the tail, the digit sum and composite divisors
THE DOOMSDAY RULE
the weekday of any date in the Gregorian calendar, worked out in the head in three steps
NUMBERS 1 TO 100
the hundred chart · primes picked out in colour