Kitchen Chemistry

Chemistry for everyone…

CHM 113/114 is a course for non-science majors to learn and use chemistry in their everyday lives…in the kitchen. See my teaching philosophy here.


You can find the 2020 summer course at this link. The course is publicly browse-able, but only enrolled students can complete or submit work.


The Science of Cooking

This course spawned a book in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Provost, Dr. Brenda Kelly and Dr. Mark Wallert. There is a second edition underway.

Book cover of The Science of Food and Cooking

Kitchen Chemistry has been featured in a two newspaper articles in the Morning Call and the Philadelphia Inquirer and a radio interview with a local NPR station.

If you are interested in the guided inquiry activities that accompany the 1st edition of the book, you can find them here or here.

If you are interested in how Dr. Colabroy teaches this course, including labs, you can find open versions of her Canvas courses here and here.

Kitchen Chemistry Publicity Videos

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