Gastrophysics

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Truly accessible, entertaining and informative. On every page there are ideas to set you thinking and widen your horizons His delight in weird food facts is infectious...fascinating Not many people are as ready to realize the importance of the senses as Charles Spence Popular science at its best. Insightful, entertainingly written and peppered throughout with facts you can use in the kitchen, in the classroom, or in the pub This is partly serious tome and partly an amusing guide for the layperson to a whole new gustatory world. Gastrophysics is packed with such tasty factual morsels that could be served up at dinner parties. If Spence can percolate all these factual morsels to the mainstream, the benefits to all of us would be obvious Spence allows people to appreciate the multisensory experience of eating The scientist changing the way we eat Spence romps around such factoids in the style of a Blue Peter presenter . . . fascinating and provocative A fascinating look at the science of food and how our perception is shaped by all our senses, not just taste If simply changing the name of a dish on a menu or the color of the plate on which it is served can dramatically alter our perception of taste and food quality, then everyone in the restaurant industry needs to read this and take a deeper look at the scientific secrets Professor Spence reveals in Gastrophysics Wonderfully curious and thought-provoking . . . brilliant Spence cheerily whisks the reader through the senses like a magician . . . a mind-bending menu of fascinating insights Revealing, very interesting and well worth understanding . . . highly enlightening Spence takes a jovial pleasure in puncturing our perceptions and showing that there's a lot more going on in our mouths than what we think we're tasting . . . Spence has given us much food for thought A chatty whirl through the latest discoveries and their real-world applications I wanted to reach out and thank you for your absolutely brilliant book Gastrophysics. As a thirty year restaurant veteran just venturing out on my own into the wild world of consulting, I found your research confirmed many of my long-held beliefs while adding tons of things I had never considered.

It can't fail to entertain, inform and ultimately dazzle

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