The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink

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. 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. This book will interest anyone seeking to understand more fully the importance of food and flavor in human experience.

• Author
• Carolyn Korsmeyer, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Mary Weismantel, Margaret Visser, Sidney W. Mintz, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Paul Stoller, Cheryl Olkes, T. Sarah Peterson, D.T. Suzuki, Marjo Buitelaar, Elizabeth Carmichael, Linda M. Bartoshuk, Chloe Sayer, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, B.N. Goswamy, Yi-Fu Tuan, Stephen Mennell, Jukka Gronow, Amy B. Trubek, Emile Peynaud, Richard A. Watson, Valerie B. Duffy, Marcel Proust, C. Nadia Seremetakis, David Sutton, Deborah Lupton, M.F.K. Fisher, Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott, Darra Goldstein, Allison James, Elizabeth Rozin, Lisa M. Heldke, Paul Rozin, Jean-François Revel, Jack Goody, Pierre Bourdieu, Donna R. Gabaccia

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 384

• Publisher
• Berg Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781845200619

• Genres
• food, anthropology

• Release date
• 2005