Gastrophysics : the new science of eating / Charles Spence ; foreword by Heston Blumenthal.

  • Spence, Charles (Experimental psychologist)
Date:
[2017]
  • Books

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Description

The pleasures of food lie mostly in the mind, not in the mouth. Get that straight and you can start to understand what really makes food enjoyable, stimulating, and, most important, memorable. Spence reveals in amusing detail the importance of all the "off the plate" elements of a meal: the weight of cutlery, the color of the plate, the background music, and much more. Whether we're dining alone or at a dinner party, on a plane or in front of the TV, he reveals how to understand what we're tasting and influence what others experience. This is accessible science at its best, fascinating to anyone in possession of an appetite. Crammed with discoveries about our everyday sensory lives, Gastrophysics is a book guaranteed to make you look at your plate in a whole new way.--AMAZON.

Publication/Creation

New York : Viking, [2017]

Physical description

xxvii, 308 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index.

Contents

Taste -- Smell -- Sight -- Sound -- Touch -- The atmospheric meal -- Social dining -- Airline food -- The meal remembered -- The personalized meal -- The experiential meal -- Digital dining -- Back to the futurists.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WI102 2017S74g
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780735223462
  • 0735223467
  • 9780735223486
  • 0735223483