TY  - BOOK
AU  - Korsmeyer,Carolyn
TI  - The taste culture reader: experiencing food and drink 
T2  - Sensory formations,
SN  - 9781845200602 (cloth)
AV  - TX651 .T39 2005
U1  - 641.3 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berg
KW  - Cooking
KW  - Food
KW  - Beverages
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : perspectives on taste --; 1; On taste --; 2; Chemical senses : taste and smell --; 3; Culinary themes and variations --; 3a; Flavor principles : some applications --; 4; Retrieving tastes : two sources of cuisine --; 5; The high and the low : culinary culture in Asia and Europe --; 6; Taste of luxury, taste of necessity --; 7; Colonial Creoles : the formation of tastes in early America --; 7a; Hoppin' John --; 8; Tasty meals and bitter gifts --; 9; Salt : the edible rock --; 10; Sweetness and meaning --; 11; Spices : tastes of paradise --; 12; Thick sauce : remarks on the social relations of the Songhay --; 13; Food as divine medicine --; 14; Food with saints --; 15; Zen and the art of tea --; 16; Living Ramadan : fasting and feasting in Morocco --; 17; Bitter herbs and unleavened bread (from the Passover Haggadah) --; 18; Feasting with dead souls --; 19; Of the standard of taste --; 20; Objective and subjective senses : the sense of taste --; 21; Rasa : delight of the reason --; 22; Pleasures of the proximate senses : eating, taste, and culture --; 23; Of gastronomes and guides --; 24; Champagne and caviar : Soviet kitsch --; 25; Place matters --; 26; Tasting problems and errors of perception --; 27; On the Zeedijk --; 28; The Madeleine --; 29; The breast of Aphrodite --; 30; Synesthesia, memory, and the taste of home --; 31; Food and emotion --; 32; The pale yellow glove --; 32a; Christmas cake --; 32b; Sunshine cake --; 33; Artificial flavours --; 33a; Rainbow delight cake --; 34; Taste in an age of convenience : from frozen food to meals in 'the matrix' --; 35; The play's the thing : dining out in the new Russia --; 36; Identity and the global stew --; 37; But is it authentic? : culinary travel and the search for the "genuine article" --; Succulent selection : a select bibliography of 50 further readings
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