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At Boston bar, Harvard scientists find physics at work

Drink, a Fort Point cocktail bar, became a temporary lab

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 03, 2012

Two physicists walk into a bar and pull up corner seats. The bartender asks what they’d like to drink. The professor and the graduate student order cocktails for a scientific palate: they’d like a spontaneous emulsion, a stiff foam of liquid and air, and an experiment in the mouth-feel of a Manhattan (an experiment better known as shaken vs. stirred). Teaching a class on the physics of cooking got these scientists interested in the science behind everyday eating.

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