The Taste Culture Reader / Experiencing Food and Drink
- 1st
- Berg, 2005
- 422
This book explores the sensuous dimensions of eating and drinking, from the physiology of the tongue to the embodiment of social identities and enactment of ceremonial meanings. Introduction: Perspectives on Taste, Taste: Physiology and Circumstance, Taste Cultures: Gustation in History, Eloquent Flavors, Body and Souls, Taste and Aesthetic Discrimination, Fine Discernments and the Cultivation of Taste, Taste and Emotion and Memory, Artifice and Authenticity, Succulent Selection: A Select Bibliography of 50 Further Readings, Index.