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Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat
Tasty The Art and Science of What We Eat Author:John McQuaid Taste has long been considered the most basic of the five senses because its principal mission is a simple one: to discern food from everything else. Taste is a whole-body experience, and breakthroughs in genetics and microbiology are casting light not just on the experience of french fries and foie gras, but the mysterious interplay of body and... more » brain.
Tasty explains the scientific research taking place on multiple fronts: how genes shape our tastes; how the mind assembles flavors from the five senses and signals from body?s metabolic systems; why something disgusts one person and delights another; and what today?s obsessions with extreme tastes tell us about the brain.
Brilliantly synthesizing science, ancient myth, philosophy, and literature, Tasty offers a delicious smorgasbord of where taste originated and where it?s going?and why it changes by the day.« less