In the right hands, a culinary accident can become the next big dish or technique, writes Kate Gibbs.
Frank Epperson sat on his back porch mixing powdered soda and water with a stick. Aged 11, he was experimenting, as children do, in a bid to make a soft drink. Distracted, he wandered off, leaving the mixture in the cold all night. Returning to the porch the next morning, he found the mixture frozen solid. He pulled at the stick in the tub and, eureka, he had accidentally invented the Popsicle. It was 1905.
History is full of fortuitous accidents: penicillin, rayon, Scotchgard, Archimedes’ weight-to-volume ratio; each was discovered via serendipitous stumbling and each turned out to benefit, or at least comfort, mankind.
Article published in The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Living today.. Read the full article here.
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such a good story. well done gibbs.