Taste What You're Missing The Passionate Eater's Guide to Why Good Food Tastes Good

Name: Taste What You're Missing The Passionate Eater's Guide to Why Good Food Tastes Good
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ISBN: 9781439190739

ISBN-10: 1439190739

ISBN-13: 9781439190739

Edition: 2012

Authors: Barb Stuckey

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Foodies rejoice! Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite food inventor offers a guide to the senses with advice on how to develop your palate and better enjoy the pleasures of eating.Featured by Malcolm Gladwell in a New Yorker magazine article about the quest to develop the perfect cookie, Barb Stuckey is the food developer that famed foodies—such as Michael Pollan—turn to when they need to understand the pyschology and physiology of taste. In Taste What You’re Missing, Stuckey shares her professional knowledge in an engaging style that’s one part Mary Roach, two parts Oliver Sacks, and a dash of Anthony Bourdain for spice.Taste What You’re Missing serves up stories: seared, sauced, and garnished with…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 3/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction


What Are You Missing?


Tip of Your Tongue, Tip of the Iceberg



The Workings of the Senses



Taste



Smell



Touch



Sight



Sound



How the Pros Taste



From Womb to Tomb



The Basic Tastes



Salt



Bitter



Sweet



Sour



Umami



Fat: The Sixth Basic Taste-and Other Candidates



The Nuances of Flavor



Taste Magic: The Business and Chemistry of Flavor



Terrible Tastes Taste Terrible



Perspective



The Chef Who Lost His Smell, and Other Tragedies of Taste



How Taste Affects Your Waist



Putting It All Together



Balancing Flavor: Recipes That Teach



Summary: Sensory Truths You Never Suspected



Fifteen Ways to Get More from Every Bite


Notes


Illustration and Photography Credits


Resources and References


Smell and Taste Treatment Centers and Research Centers Without Clinics


Acknowledgments


Index