date:Sep 11, 2013
s Kenneth A. Spencer Award for Outstanding Achievement in Food and Agricultural Chemistry.
Pavlath pointed out that edible films are by no means a 21st century innovation. Edible films were used at least as early as the 1100s, when merchants in citrus-growing regions of southern China used wax to preserve oranges shipped by caravan to the Emperor's table in the North. People in Europe for centuries preserved fresh fruit with larding, a coating of the melted fat from hogs. Those coatings sealed