The Sense Of Taste
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Author | : Carolyn Korsmeyer |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-01-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 080147132X |
Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human experience, and they continually inspire writers and artists. Carolyn Korsmeyer explains how taste came to occupy so low a place in the hierarchy of senses and why it is deserving of greater philosophical respect and attention. Korsmeyer begins with the Greek thinkers who classified taste as an inferior, bodily sense; she then traces the parallels between notions of aesthetic and gustatory taste that were explored in the formation of modern aesthetic theories. She presents scientific views of how taste actually works and identifies multiple components of taste experiences. Turning to taste's objects—food and drink—she looks at the different meanings they convey in art and literature as well as in ordinary human life and proposes an approach to the aesthetic value of taste that recognizes the representational and expressive roles of food. Korsmeyer's consideration of art encompasses works that employ food in contexts sacred and profane, that seek to whet the appetite and to keep it at bay; her selection of literary vignettes ranges from narratives of macabre devouring to stories of communities forged by shared eating.
Author | : Mari Schuh |
Publisher | : Bellwether Media |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 161211301X |
Did you know girls often have more taste buds than boys? Taste buds on your tongue let you taste foods that are salty, sweet, sour, or bitter. This book introduces how your taste buds send messages to your brain so that you can enjoy delicious foods or know if a food is too spicy or sour to eat.
Author | : Kelli C. Rudolph |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317515404 |
Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies and to other modes of sensory experience? This volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient sense of taste, draws on the literature, philosophy, history and archaeology of Greco-Roman antiquity to provide answers to these central questions. By surveying and probing the literary and material remains from the Archaic period to late antiquity, contributors investigate the cultural and intellectual development towards attitudes and theories about taste. These specially commissioned chapters also open a window onto ancient thinking about perception and the body. Importantly, these authors go beyond exploring the functional significance of taste to uncover its value and meaning in the actions, thoughts and words of the Greeks and Romans. Taste and the Ancient Senses presents a full range of interpretative approaches to the gustatory sense, and provides an indispensable resource for students and scholars of classical antiquity and sensory studies.
Author | : Casey Henley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Biology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dana Meachen Rau |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404810211 |
Discusses the sense of taste and how it affects the body.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1996-05-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309175593 |
This book reviews the research pertaining to nutrient requirements for working in cold or in high-altitude environments and states recommendations regarding the application of this information to military operational rations. It addresses whether, aside from increased energy demands, cold or high-altitude environments elicit an increased demand or requirement for specific nutrients, and whether performance in cold or high-altitude environments can be enhanced by the provision of increased amounts of specific nutrients.
Author | : Christopher H. Hawkes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 052113062X |
This is a comprehensive and unique text that details the latest research on smell and taste disorders for use by clinicians and scientists.
Author | : Sarah E. Worth |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1789144817 |
A thoughtful consideration of taste as a sense and an idea and of how we might jointly develop both. When we eat, we eat the world: taking something from outside and making it part of us. But what does it taste of? And can we develop our taste? In Taste, Sarah Worth argues that taste is a sense that needs educating, for the real pleasures of eating only come with an understanding of what one really likes. From taste as an abstract concept to real examples of food, she explores how we can learn about and develop our sense of taste through themes ranging from pleasure, authenticity, and food fraud, to visual images, recipes, and food writing.
Author | : Micah M. Murray |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2011-08-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1439812179 |
It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging and neuroscience methods, The Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes details current understanding in the neural bases for these phenomena as studied across species, stages of development, and clinical statuses. Organized thematically into nine sub-sections, the book is a collection of contributions by leading scientists in the field. Chapters build generally from basic to applied, allowing readers to ascertain how fundamental science informs the clinical and applied sciences. Topics discussed include: Anatomy, essential for understanding the neural substrates of multisensory processing Neurophysiological bases and how multisensory stimuli can dramatically change the encoding processes for sensory information Combinatorial principles and modeling, focusing on efforts to gain a better mechanistic handle on multisensory operations and their network dynamics Development and plasticity Clinical manifestations and how perception and action are affected by altered sensory experience Attention and spatial representations The last sections of the book focus on naturalistic multisensory processes in three separate contexts: motion signals, multisensory contributions to the perception and generation of communication signals, and how the perception of flavor is generated. The text provides a solid introduction for newcomers and a strong overview of the current state of the field for experts.
Author | : Harry Levi Hollingworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Taste |
ISBN | : |