Your Tasting Brain
A Sensory Approach to Wine, Beer, and Other Pleasures
Format:Hardback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Publishing:15th May '26
£28.00
This title is due to be published on 15th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A scintillating invitation to enrich our culinary pursuits by understanding how our bodies turn a taste into flavor, emotion, and meaning.
Our foodscape has never been more adventurous, but fully experiencing the subtleties of complex cheeses, wines, or cocktails can be challenging. No longer! In Your Tasting Brain, bestselling food writer Randy Mosher assures us that we can all become master tasters by learning more about the brilliant ways our bodies translate smell, taste, and mouthfeel into flavor—without needing to know everything about terroir, varietals, or exotic ingredients.
In Your Tasting Brain, Mosher shares a road map to send us on our tasting journey, one that connects the worlds of science and art. Our bodies are more finely tuned tasting machines than we realize, Mosher explains. Even a simple grasp of how our senses interact with the world can enhance our culinary delight—and Mosher offers us a tantalizing framework, from how our brain processes, categorizes, and rewards (or punishes) encounters with chemicals in food, all the way to how aromas and flavors spur us to language, emotion, and creativity. Overflowing with scientific insight and practical advice, Your Tasting Brain is an appetizing guide for anyone looking to enhance the pleasures they find in food through attention, curiosity, and practice.
“Mosher’s decades spent practicing the art of tasting while also studying the science behind it pay off handsomely in his newest offering. This accessible text will be tremendously useful for anyone involved in food or beverage work. And anyone who loves to eat and drink thoughtfully will delight in the insights and revelations that Your Tasting Brain offers into the mysteries of gustatory experience. Brilliant!”
-- Ray Daniels, founder of the Cicerone Certification Program“Mosher gives us an easy-to-digest smorgasbord of information that heightens our tasting experiences. The pleasure of deliciousness has never been more accessible now that Your Tasting Brain is on our table. Mosher blends so much of the otherwise overwhelming and sometimes contradictory insights about taste from science and art into a guidebook that’s both immensely informative and enjoyable.”
-- Charlie Papazian, author of 'The Complete Joy of Homebrewing' and founder of the Brewers Association“As students, we always stand on the shoulders of those great thinkers who have come before us. Students of beer, wine, mead, and food will stand on Mosher’s shoulders from now on. This book fuses insights into the physiological processes behind chemosensation with appreciation for the mental processes evoking perception. Like Hervé This, Nicholas Kurti, and Harold McGee, Mosher is transforming and advancing the way we understand gustation. Bravo!”
-- Ken Schramm, author of 'The Complete Meadmaker' and cofounder of Schramm’sISBN: 9780226848198
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
376 pages