Vol. 91, No. 1

  • Sharing Tech’s Bounty

    Sharing Tech’s Bounty

    It’s a foregone conclusion that most college students are strapped for cash. But for some students at Tech, it’s not just a lack of beer money, but a true struggle to afford enough to eat. Last year, members of the Student Alumni Association chose to help their less fortunate peers by using the organization’s annual more

  • How to Make a Craft Beer

    How to Make a Craft Beer

    The official definition of a craft beer, according to the Brewers Association, is one that’s produced by a small, independent and traditional brewer. But to Atlanta’s Second Self Beer Company, craft beer means something much more—namely high-quality ingredients and processes that produce “layers of character and flavor” which come together in a beer that’s “greater more

  • Inside the Arby’s Test Kitchen

    Inside the Arby’s Test Kitchen

    Getting a new menu item to an Arby’s location near you is no small feat for the executive cooking team based at the corporate headquarters test kitchen in Sandy Springs. It takes the work of five dedicated food professionals to create tasty products that are cost-effective and fulfill on the promise that the Arby’s marketing more

  • An Engineer Returns <br />to His Restaurant Roots

    An Engineer Returns
    to His Restaurant Roots

    Renowned Washington, D.C.-area Chef Tim Ma, ECE 00, gave up a successful career in engineering to return to his first love—food. All roads led to the restaurant business for 37-year-old Georgia Tech alumnus Tim Ma. All, that is, except for one that originally took him to Atlanta. Ma literally grew up in restaurants, beginning in Maumelle, more

  • A Fruitful Collaboration

    A Fruitful Collaboration

    Foraging activist and Tech alumnus Craig Durkin, MSE 06, MS MSE 07, has teamed up with Associate Professor Carl DiSalvo to make sure the bounty of Atlanta’s neglected fruit trees doesn’t wind up wasted. Craig Durkin wouldn’t call himself a professional forager—it’s a vocation rather than an occupation. However, he has been an instrumental force more