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Taste as experience : the philosophy and aesthetics of food / Nicola Perullo.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Arts and traditions of the tablePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Edition: American editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231541428
  • 0231541422
Uniform titles:
  • Gusto come esperienza. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Taste as experience.DDC classification:
  • 641.01/3 23
LOC classification:
  • TX641 .P47313 2016
NLM classification:
  • TX 641
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: The Project -- Difficulties and Resistances -- Possibilities and Perspectives -- First Mode Of Access: Pleasure -- Pleasure, Enjoyment, and Intelligence -- Pleasure, Image, and Pathology -- Criticism and the Look of Childhood -- Pleasure as Nature in Culture -- The Ethics of Pleasure: Good That Does "Good" -- Second Mode Of Access: Knowledge -- Learning About Quality, Cultivating Taste -- Tasting the World -- Dressed Taste, Image, and Representation -- Taste, Conflicts, and Culture -- Curiosity, Expertise, Criticism (with Risks Included) -- Taste and Sustainability: The Good That Grounds the Good -- Taste and Diet -- Third Mode Of Access: Indifference -- Essen Non Est Percipi -- Contingent Indifference -- Compulsive Indifference and Atmospheric Indifference -- The Neutral -- The Extension of Pleasure and the Limits of Gustatory Exclusivism -- The Wisdom Of Taste, The Taste Of Wisdom -- Taste and Pleasure, Experience, and Wisdom -- Wise Expertise (Epicurus, Hume, and Dewey) -- Regulation Without Rules -- Flexibility: The Forest and the Coast -- Conviviality: Discord and Gustatory Empathy -- Take My Advice.
Summary: "Taste as Experience puts the pleasure of food at the center of human experience. It shows how the sense of taste informs our preferences for and relationship to nature, pushes us toward ethical practices of consumption, and impresses upon us the importance of aesthetics. Eating is often dismissed as a necessary aspect of survival, and our personal enjoyment of food is considered a quirk. Nicola Perullo sees food as the only portion of the world we take in on a daily basis, constituting our first and most significant encounter with the earth. Perullo has long observed people's food practices and has listened to their food experiences. He draws on years of research to explain the complex meanings behind our food choices and the thinking that accompanies our gustatory actions. He also considers our indifference toward food as a force influencing us as much as engagement. 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."--Publisher's description.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2016).

Translation of: Il gusto come esperienza. Bra, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: The Project -- Difficulties and Resistances -- Possibilities and Perspectives -- First Mode Of Access: Pleasure -- Pleasure, Enjoyment, and Intelligence -- Pleasure, Image, and Pathology -- Criticism and the Look of Childhood -- Pleasure as Nature in Culture -- The Ethics of Pleasure: Good That Does "Good" -- Second Mode Of Access: Knowledge -- Learning About Quality, Cultivating Taste -- Tasting the World -- Dressed Taste, Image, and Representation -- Taste, Conflicts, and Culture -- Curiosity, Expertise, Criticism (with Risks Included) -- Taste and Sustainability: The Good That Grounds the Good -- Taste and Diet -- Third Mode Of Access: Indifference -- Essen Non Est Percipi -- Contingent Indifference -- Compulsive Indifference and Atmospheric Indifference -- The Neutral -- The Extension of Pleasure and the Limits of Gustatory Exclusivism -- The Wisdom Of Taste, The Taste Of Wisdom -- Taste and Pleasure, Experience, and Wisdom -- Wise Expertise (Epicurus, Hume, and Dewey) -- Regulation Without Rules -- Flexibility: The Forest and the Coast -- Conviviality: Discord and Gustatory Empathy -- Take My Advice.

"Taste as Experience puts the pleasure of food at the center of human experience. It shows how the sense of taste informs our preferences for and relationship to nature, pushes us toward ethical practices of consumption, and impresses upon us the importance of aesthetics. Eating is often dismissed as a necessary aspect of survival, and our personal enjoyment of food is considered a quirk. Nicola Perullo sees food as the only portion of the world we take in on a daily basis, constituting our first and most significant encounter with the earth. Perullo has long observed people's food practices and has listened to their food experiences. He draws on years of research to explain the complex meanings behind our food choices and the thinking that accompanies our gustatory actions. He also considers our indifference toward food as a force influencing us as much as engagement. 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."--Publisher's description.

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