Getting Old Can Kill You by Rita Lakin

Getting Old Can Kill You by Rita Lakin

Alcohol has become the social and cultural necessity in today's society, though its role as part of diet is controversial. The alcohol is formed as a by-product of biochemical conversion of yeast on the sugars or carbohydrates of fruits. A typical alcoholic fermentation involves conversion of sugars, the most common substrate of fermentation, to typically produced products like ethanol, lactic acid, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen gas (H2). However, more exotic compounds can be produced by fermentation, which brings out the variation in the taste of the final product. The history of alcohol fermentation is as old as human civilization. Despite of being one of the most ancient fermentation processes known to mankind, alcohol fermentation is also one of the most diverse processes, bringing out variation in properties, taste, aroma and body of the product depending upon the changes in the fermentation process. The quantitative and qualitative effects of substrate concentration, yeast concentration, and nutrient supplementation directly effects the ethanol content, fermentation time, and ethanol productivity. Besides dietary contribution, alcohol from cellulosic substrate is now widely used as renewable energy source. This book is an effort to compile various studies of the alcohol fermentation process and the different substrates leading to differences in the final product.

Fate took Rita Lakin from New York to Los Angeles, where she began an extensive writing career that has included staff writing for television programs such as Peyton Place, The Mod Squad, Dynasty, and Dr. Kildare, as well as creating original series such as The Rookies, Flamingo Road, and Nightingales. She wrote many movies of the week and miniseries such as Women in Chains and Strong Medicine. Rita Lakin has won awards from the Writers Guild of America, the Mystery Writers of America s Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the coveted Avery Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan. Getting Old Is a Disaster won the Lefty Award for Most Humorous Crime Novel.

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ISBN 13	9780440245605
ISBN 10	0440245605
Title	Getting Old Can Kill You
Author	Rita Lakin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2011-06-28
Number of pages	273
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