Taste what you're missing
by Barb Stuckey · first published 2012
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"Foodies rejoice! Malcolm Gladwell's favorite food inventor offers a guide to the senses with advice on how to develop your palate and better enjoy the pleasures of eating. Featured by Malcolm Gladwell in a New Yorker magazine article about the quest to develop the perfect cookie, Barb Stuckey is the food developer that famed foodies--such as Michael Pollan--turn to when they need to understand the pyschology and physiology of taste. In Taste What You're Missing, Stuckey shares her professional knowledge in an engaging style that's one part Mary Roach, two parts Oliver Sacks, and a dash of Ant
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Not online AFAIK, but "Taste What You're Missing" by Barb Stuckey is a pretty readable book. It's more about how the tasting works on the human side than the actual cooking part, but it goes into some detail about how different tastes work together,…
on “David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness” ↗For people into this kind of stuff check out “Taste: What You’re Missing” from food scientist Barb Stucky. It’s a pop science collection of stores about measuring tastes and food pleasure. I remember reading a chapter on texture and how one of the founders of Ben and Jerry’s…
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