From sustainable cooking practices to fusion cuisines, the year 2024 ushered in a wave of innovative food trends and recipes that redefined the way we cook, eat and savour our meals. Croissant cubes Ingredients: 500g all-purpose flour 250g unsalted butter 60g sugar 10g salt 7g dry yeast 250ml cold milk 1 egg Optional fillings: pistachio cream, matcha custard, or chocolate …
PATHANAMTHITTA: They deftly juggled and rolled the Rubik’s Cubes, arraying them from the bottom up on to a specially designed metal canvas. The brothers attribute their expertise in Rubik’s Cube to their mother, Indu Bijoy, who learned to solve it by watching YouTube videos. “ACP Raj Kumar P, filmmaker Shyam Mangalath and music director Prasanth Mohan have been supportive in …
Manish Rathod, 50, has made 50 variants himself, and 15 of his designs have been inducted into the Twisty Puzzles Museum, an online repository of unique takes on the Rubik’s cube, by designers from around the world. Rathod’s entries include a 12-sided or dodecahedron version with 50 movable pieces; an icosahedron with 20 faces; and a curvy ghost cube that …
Plato was right: On average, the world is made out of cubes. On a mild autumn day in 2016, the Hungarian mathematician Gábor Domokos arrived on the geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack’s doorstep in Philadelphia. “What if I told you that the number was always somewhere around six?” Then he asked a bigger question, one that he hoped would worm its way …