Maria the Jewess, however, things are a little 'different, as this wonderful lady, who lived in Alexandria in the Hellenistic period, he discovered many things, some of which still are not been superseded by new discoveries and all this thanks to those who even if they discover something new, at least find something nice: the professional kitchen.
Mary or Miriam is the one who gave his name to the unit "bain marie" or double boiler, without which it would be absolutely impossible to prepare dishes that keep intact the flavor of the main ingredient!
Mary, did not discover the double boiler just to prepare its cream without it they go mad, or to melt the chocolate without altering its composition, or to heat his food without destroying the taste, but to facilitate its work in the laboratory.
the "mother of alchemy" Zosimus speaks from Panapoli of Egypt, an alchemist, who wrote the manual in greek oldest of alchemy. Zosimus lived five hundred years after Mary, so information about his life are covered by the fog of myth ... that has thickened with the passage of time, as later was awarded all'alchimia a metaphysical character, initially, to ' age of Mary the Jewess, had for his life ... then you can only make assumptions. Lived around 300 BC, and if it really does not know Hebrew, Zosimus simply calls it "the sister of Moses." He worked shortly after Euclid and Archimedes is supposed to have met in Alexandria. There no evidence that Mary was concerned metaphysical alchemy, on the contrary, the fact that he founded a school of alchemy to pass on his knowledge, most of the tools that he invented, they make us think he was a scientist, a pioneer in mechanical chemistry. The equipment we use today in the kitchen was called in ancient κηρoτακίς (Kerotakis), as the double boiler kept warm the wax used in the painters in encaustic (a painting technique performed on a table or wall, making use of wax as a component of the binder), which is a sublime example of the famous portraits of Fayum. According to another interpretation of the double boiler κηρoτακίς was called because it was used to wet the metal and defining "κέρωμα" the bathroom as the steam condenses had the consistency of wax. In fact, the "Kerotakis" consisted of a sphere or a cylinder with hemispherical cap on the fire, in which the lower part were heated solution of mercury, arsenic sulfide and sulfur at the top of the cylinder were placed metals to be treated; Sulfur fumes attacking the metal sulfide releasing black (Black Mary), which was thought to be the first stage of transmutation. Continue to heat you could get a league like gold in the composition varied depending on the metal plate or placed on mercury and sulfur compounds used. In addition, the top of the tank in accordance with the principles of Hermes Trismegistus was to be sealed, that would be "hermetically sealed". The Kerotakis was also used for the extraction of vegetable oils such as rose water.
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