Food Preferences and Taste : : Continuity and Change / / Helen Macbeth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Macbeth, Helen,
• MitwirkendeR: Douglas, Mary,; Garine, Igor de,; González Turmo, Isabel,; Green, Alex,; Haidt, Jonathan,; Harbottle, Lynn,; Hladik, Claude Marcel,; Hubert, Annie,; Huss-Ashmore, Rebecca,; Imada, Sumio,; Johnston, Susan L.,; Lawry, Sue,; Macbeth, Helen,; McCauley, Clark,; McDonaugh, Christian,; Messer, Ellen,; Rolls, Edmund T.,; Rozin, Paul,; Schiefenhövel, Wulf,; Simmen, Bruno,; Valagao, Manuela,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology of Food Nutrition ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)

Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic liter...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• FIGURES AND MAPS
• TABLES
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• 1. FOOD PREFERENCES AND TASTE
• 2. PRIMATE MODELS FOR TASTE AND FOOD PREFERENCES
• 3. FOOD PREFERENCES IN NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES IN RELATION TO TASTE SENSITIVITY
• 4. NEURAL PROCESSING UNDERLYING FOOD SELECTION
• 5. GOOD TASTE AND BAD TASTE
• 6. DISGUST
• 7. WILD PLANTS AS FAMINE FOODS
• 8. THREE CENTURIES OF CHANGING EUROPEAN TASTES FOR THE POTATO
• 9. THE PATHWAYS OF TASTE
• 10. EVOLUTION IN EATING HABITS IN THE ALTO DOURO OF NORTHERN PORTUGAL
• 11. NATIONALITY AND FOOD PREFERENCES IN THE CERDANYA VALLEY, EASTERN PYRENES
• 12. BREAKING THE RULES
• 13. CHOICES OF FOOD AND CUISINE IN THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL SPACE AMONG THE YAO OF THAILAND
• 14. TASTE AND EMBODIMENT
• 15. FOOD PREFERENCES AND TASTE IN AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX