Yum!: A Book About Taste (Amazing Body) (Library Binding)
Taste: One Palate’s Journey Through the World’s Greatest Dishes (Paperback)
Amazon.com Review
Fans of David Rosengarten will be thrilled with the publication of Taste, not so much a companion volume to his popular Food Network show as a distillation of all the man holds dear. It is a remarkable, lush effort, beautifully illustrated with rich color pictures of exotic and home-grown foods. How many food-addled souls out there take the time, like Rosengarten, to sit down and catalog all of the personal favorite dishes from around the world, and then exp (more…)
Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy (Paperback)
Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human experience, and they continually inspire writers and artists. Carolyn Korsmeyer explains how taste came to occupy so low a place in the hierarchy of senses and why it is deserving of gr (more…)
Live Taste [IMPORT] [LIVE]
Reissue of live set from blues-rock act featuring Rory Gallagher. Originally released in 1971. 1994 release. Standard jewel case.
The Elements of Taste (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly
Kunz (former four-star chef of New York’s Lespinasse restaurant) and Kaminsky (New York Times food writer and author of The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass) team up for a cookbook variation. Instead of arranging food by course or primary ingredient, they identify 14 basic tastes (salty, sweet, floral herbal, “funky,” meaty, etc.) then groups them into four categories: Tastes That Push, Tastes That Pull, Tastes That Punctuate and Taste Platforms. The resulting r (more…)





