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Nicola Perullo sees food as constituting our first and most significant encounter with the earth. He draws on years of research to explain the complex meanings behind our food choices and the thinking that accompanies our gustatory actions. For Perullo, taste is value and wisdom. It cannot be reduced to mere chemical or cultural factors but embodies the quality and quantity of our earthly experience.
How do our daily encounters with food shape our knowledge of the world?
Carolyn Korsmeyer, author of Making Sense of Taste: Taste, Food, and Philosophy:With Taste as Experience, Nicola Perullo has set a new standard for studies of the sense of taste, delivering a sophisticated and multifaceted approach to understanding gustatory experience. His innovative perspective blends the contributions of biology and culture and adjudicates the roles of pleasure and cognition in eating and drinking. Perullo's intriguing study culminates in a theory of taste as a kind of aesthetic wisdom that discloses the depth and complexity that gustatory experience can achieve.
Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics:With its wealth of wide-ranging philosophical and gastronomical knowledge, Taste as Experience illuminates the richly meaningful complexity of our ordinary ways of eating, while suggesting a path to somaesthetic wisdom through our culturally and cognitively embodied encounters with food.
David M. Kaplan, editor of Readings in the Philosophy of Technology:Nicola Perullo analyzes food aesthetics and the nature of taste in more detail than anyone else has ever done. Taste as Experience moves comfortably across the disciplines, drawing equally from philosophy, literature, culture, and history. This is a lively and entertaining read, full of insights and interesting examples.
Steven Shapin, author of Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life:Philosophers have historically held the senses of gustation and olfaction in bad odor and have regarded eating and drinking as unworthy subjects for those living the Life of the Mind. Perullo manages the difficult task of writing philosophically, and very seriously, about food and wine with only a minimum of defensiveness. His subject is the experience of eating and drinking, and his book is essential reading for anyone wanting to reflect on what that experience is.
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