Writing this book has been a pleasure, but it has also been frustrating. It was a delight to see
that the facts of food preferences, eating, and food behavior conform in many ways to the …

It is evident from the span of literature on the subject that the topic of food preferences and
taste has many perspectives. However, the information has been scattered in the journals …

Food selection, a multidimensional behavior leading to food intake, the ingestive process, is
dependent on access to edible substances and the availability of options. It incorporates the …

Eating is arguably the most fundamental of human activities. In Western societies in
particular, there is great interest in diet, health, and food preferences. This book translates …

Food is central to the lives of all, and has for centuries been celebrated in art, poetry and
song. More recently, media interest has focused public attention on the food we eat, and its …

This book reports the results of a symposium in which 16 experts discussed what determines
the food we eat. The subject matter takes the reader from molecular or biological …

JL HE theme of this paper is that food is fundamental, fun, frightening, and far-reaching. By
far-reaching, I mean that food is foun-dational, that is, the system evolved to deal with …

Sensory science and consumer science are very young compared with the other scientific
disciplines from which they have borrowed well-established methods. Methods and …

Eating, drinking and food choices are among the most frequent human behaviours. Although
seemingly simple, they are complex behaviours that are determined by many factors and …

For the readers of this book, or even their acquaintances, human food choice probably
brings to mind something like the following scenario: a person is faced with some foods, and …