The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink

by Carolyn Korsmeyer

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From Eve's apple to Proust's madeleine to today's culinary tourism, food looms large in culture. Debates about health and nutrition are common in news reports. Yet despite its fundamental relationship to food, taste is mysteriously absent from most of these discussions. The flavors of foods permeate social relations, religious and other occasions. Charged with memory, emotion, desire and aversion, taste is arguably the most evocative of the senses...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1845200616

ISBN13:9781845200619

Release Date:October 2005

Publisher:Berg Publishers

Length:421 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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Cooking Cooking Cultural Drinks & Beverages Essays Holiday Cooking Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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