Food Preferences and Taste

by Macbeth, Helen M.

• ISBN13: 9781571819581
• ISBN10: 1571819584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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 literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes social and biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps	vii	(2)
List of Tables	ix	(2)
Foreword	xi	(2)
Preface	xiii
1. Food Preferences and Taste: An Introduction	1	(14)
Helen Macbeth
Sue Lawry
2. Primate Models for Taste and Food Preferences	15	(12)
Claude Marcel Hladik
3. Food Preferences in Neotropical Primates in Relation to Taste Sensitivity	27	(12)
Bruno Simmen
4. Neural Processing Underlying Food Selection	39	(16)
Edmund T. Rolls
5. Good Taste and Bad Taste: Preferences and Aversions as Biological Principles	55	(10)
Wulf Schiefenhovel
6. Disgust: The Cultural Evolution of a Food-based Emotion	65	(18)
Paul Rozin
Jonathan Haidt
Clark McCauley
Sumio Imada
7. Wild Plants as Famine Foods: Food Choice Under Conditions of Scarcity	83	(18)
Rebecca Huss-Ashmore
Susan L. Johnston
8. Three Centuries of Changing European Tastes for the Potato	101	(14)
Ellen Messer
9. The Pathways of Taste: The West Andalucian Case	115	(12)
Isabel Gonzalez Turmo
10. Evolution in Eating Habits in the Alto Douro of Northern Portugal	127	(12)
Maria Manuela Valagao
11. Nationality and Food Preferences in the Cerdanya Valley, Eastern Pyrenees	139	(16)
Helen Macbeth
Alex Green
12. Breaking the Rules: Changes in Food Acceptability among the Tharu of Nepal	155	(12)
Christian McDonaugh
13. Choices of Food and Cuisine in the Concept of Social Space among the Yao of Thailand	167	(8)
Annie Hubert
14. Taste and Embodiment: The Food Preferences of Iranians in Britain	175	(12)
Lynn Harbottle
15. Food Preferences and Taste in an African Perspective: A Word of Caution	187	(21)
Igor de Garine
Notes on Contributors	208	(4)
Index	212