Savoring

Linda Bartoshuk of Yale (personal communication) has argued that another word, perhaps the word "savor," should be used instead of the word "taste," when describing the sensations involved in eating and drinking. She suggests such a change because eating and drinking involve not just taste. Eating and drinking also involve the sensations of vision, smell, and touch, and they form a complex interaction of sensations that can range from highly pleasurable to highly disgusting. So, when we eat and drink we do more than taste; we savor.

URLs

Food and Pleasure--text, adv., long, links, graphics

Paul Rozin discusses cross-cultural relationships between food seen as pleasure or as nutrition. He concludes that American women derive the least pleasure from food while French men derive the most. http://www.arise.org/Rozin.html

Why, Yuck, That Does Sound Delicious--article, basic, long, links, graphics

Newspaper article about the wide variety of food items humans will eat. http://www.freep.com/fun/food/qyucky17e.htm

How Can You Control Your Hunger?--tutorial, basic, short, links, graphics

Tutorial on basics of eating and appetite, from a provider of dieting software. http://www.dinesystems.com/control.htm

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