The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink: v. 3 (Sensory Formations) - Softcover

Bloomsbury

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845200616 ISBN 13: 9781845200619

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

From Eve's apple to Proust's madeleine to today's culinary tourism, food looms large in culture. Sociologists and anthropologists study cooking and eating practices across the globe. 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 flavours 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. The Taste Culture Reader 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. A cornucopia of historical, cross-cultural and theoretical views is offered, drawing from anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, science - and more. This book will interest anyone seeking to understand more fully the importance of food and flavor in human experience.

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Review:

"A timely and valuable resource on the wide-ranging topic of taste across the disciplines, from biology to sociology to gastronomic literature and philosophy, by pathbreaking writers in these fields."--Denise Gigante, Stanford University
"A rich range of disciplinary perspectives, both western and nonwestern, that engages taste as at once innate and profoundly cultural."--Jennifer Fisher, York University, Toronto

A timely and valuable resource on the wide-ranging topic of taste across the disciplines, from biology to sociology to gastronomic literature and philosophy, by pathbreaking writers in these fields. "Denise Gigante, Stanford University"

A rich range of disciplinary perspectives, both western and nonwestern, that engages taste as at once innate and profoundly cultural. "Jennifer Fisher, York University, Toronto""

About the Author:

Carolyn Korsmeyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New York at Buffalo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1845200616
• ISBN 13: 9781845200619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432