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Anxious Eaters - Why We Fall for Fad Diets by Janet Chrzan; Kima Cargill
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Ser.
Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs--which is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters. ...Show more
Cook, Taste, Learn - How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking by Guy Crosby
Category: Cook Books | Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Ser.
Cooking food is one of the activities that makes humanity unique. It's not just about what tastes good: advances in cooking technology have been a constant part of our progress, from the ability to control fire to the emergence of agriculture to modern science's understanding of what happens at a molecu ...Show more
Meals Matter - a Radical Economics Through Gastronomy by Michael Symons
Category: Food and Drink | Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Ser.
Until the early nineteenth century, political philosophy and economics were dining companions. Both took up fundamental questions of how we should feed one another. But with the rise of corporate capitalism, modern economics lost sight of its primary task and turned away from the complexities of real pe ...Show more
Mouthfeel - How Texture Makes Taste by Ole Mouritsen; Klavs Styrbæk; Mariela Johansen (Translator)
Category: Cook Books | Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Ser.
Why is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Why is fizz-less soda such a disappointment to drink, and why is flat beer so unappealing to the palate? Our sense of taste produces physical and emotional reactions that cannot be explained by chemical ...Show more
The Terroir of Whiskey - A Distiller's Journey into the Flavor of Place by Rob Arnold
Category: Beer, Wine & Spirits | Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Ser.
Look at the back label of a bottle of wine and you may well see a reference to its terroir, the total local environment of the vineyard that grew the grapes, from its soil to the climate. Winemakers universally accept that where a grape is grown influences its chemistry, which in turn changes the flavor ...Show more
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