“How we can use cocktails to inspire a greater appreciation for math and science” With Kevin Peterson & Jane Larson

I would like to use cocktails to inspire a greater appreciation for math and science. Creating the perfect drink requires mastering temperature, dilution, measurement and the combination of the right ingredients. If you don’t understand how ice works, achieving this is nearly impossible. I would like to show how science can be engaging, immediately useful and present in the objects that surround us daily. The act of dedicating yourself to understanding the patterns and correlations in nature through science has gotten a bad rap, and I would like to combat this by presenting drinks based in science that are undeniably delicious.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Peterson, who founded Sfumato Fragrances and Castalia with his wife Jane Larson. Sfumato is a natural fragrance company with its flagship store in Midtown Detroit and, in…