9780231201742

Taste

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780231201742

Hardcover|9780231201742


Overview

Taste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses, which we often take for granted. Structured as a series of "small bites," the book considers the ways that we ingest the world, how we come to know ourselves and others through the daily act of tasting.

Through flavorful explorations of the sweet, the sour, the salty, the bitter, and umami, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste. In a series of short, interdisciplinary essays, she blends personal experience with analysis of poetry, fiction, music, and the visual arts, as well as religious and philosophical texts. Dubrow considers the science of taste and how taste transforms from a physical sensation into a metaphor for discernment.

Taste is organized not so much as a linear dinner served in courses but as a meal consisting of meze, small plates of intensely flavored discourse.

ISBN-13

9780231201742

ISBN-10

0231201745

Weight

0.65 Pounds

Dimensions

5.50 x 0.50 x 8.50 In

List Price

$80.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

152 pages

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published On

2022-08-23



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