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Making sense of taste, food and philosophy by Carolyn Korsmeyer

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Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal Food history writer, cook and author.

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Episode 7

This book by Carolyn Korsmeyer challenges the traditional philosophical views on 'taste" as an aesthetic category and explores the changing concepts about the sense of taste which was historically considered as inferior to the other senses.

Traditional aesthetics doesn’t consider food as an art form, yet, the author argues that food, unlike art can lead to stronger and more complex sensory, emotional and psychological aesthetic experiences in a way that no artistic creation. The episode explores the evolution of ideas about the senses, the philosophical concept about “tasteful and distasteful"and the role of food as a means of artistic expression.

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📕 Making sense of taste, food and philosophy https://amzn.to/2XYVI1e

📗 The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy https://amzn.to/3g3zmCm

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