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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Perspectives on Taste | |
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| Taste: Physiology and Circumstance | |
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| Preface | |
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| On Taste | |
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| Chemical Senses: Taste and Smell | |
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| Culinary Themes and Variations | |
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| Flavor Principles: Some Applications | |
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| Taste Cultures: Gustation in History | |
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| Preface | |
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| Retrieving Tastes: Two Sources of Cuisine | |
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| The High and the Low: Culinary Culture in Asia and Europe | |
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| Taste of Luxury, Taste of Necessity | |
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| Colonial Creoles: The Formation of Tastes in Early America | |
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| Hoppin' John | |
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| Tasty Meals and Bitter Gifts | |
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| Eloquent Flavors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Salt: The Edible Rock | |
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| Sweetness and Meaning | |
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| Spices: Tastes of Paradise | |
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| Thick Sauce: Remarks on the Social Relations of the Songhay | |
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| Body and Soul | |
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| Preface | |
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| Food as Divine Medicine | |
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| Food with Saints | |
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| Zen and the Art of Tea | |
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| Living Ramadan: Fasting and Feasting in Morocco | |
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| Bitter Herbs and Unleavened Bread (from the Passover Haggadah) | |
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| Feasting with Dead Souls | |
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| Taste and Aesthetic Discrimination | |
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| Preface | |
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| Of the Standard of Taste | |
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| Objective and Subjective Senses: The Sense of Taste | |
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| Rasa: Delight of the Reason | |
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| Pleasures of the Proximate Senses: Eating, Taste, and Culture | |
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| Fine Discernments and the Cultivation of Taste | |
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| Preface | |
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| Of Gastronomes and Guides | |
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| Champagne and Caviar: Soviet Kitsch | |
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| Place Matters | |
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| Tasting Problems and Errors of Perception | |
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| On the Zeedijk | |
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| Taste, Emotion, and Memory | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Madeleine | |
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| The Breast of Aphrodite | |
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| Synesthesia, Memory, and the Taste of Home | |
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| Food and Emotion | |
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| The Pale Yellow Glove | |
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| Christmas Cake | |
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| Sunshine Cake | |
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| Artifice and Authenticity | |
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| Preface | |
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| Artificial Flavours | |
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| Rainbow Delight Cake | |
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| Taste in an Age of Convenience: From Frozen Food to Meals in 'the Matrix' | |
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| The Play's the Thing: Dining Out in the New Russia | |
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| Identity and the Global Stew | |
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| But is it Authentic? Culinary Travel and the Search for the "Genuine Article" | |
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| Succulent Selection: A Select Bibliography of 50 Further Readings | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |