The Essence of Gastronomy: Understanding the Flavor of Foods and Beverages
Peter Klosse
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Description for The Essence of Gastronomy: Understanding the Flavor of Foods and Beverages
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The Essence of Gastronomy: Understanding the Flavor of Foods and Beverages presents a new comprehensive and unifying theory on flavor, which answers ancient questions and offers new opportunities for solving food-related issues. It presents gastronomy as a holistic concept, focusing not only on the food and its composition but also on the human who eats it. This book defines gastronomy as the science of flavor and tasting, where flavor is a broadly interpreted objective characteristic that refers to product quality, and tasting is defined as the human perception of flavor registered by all the human senses.
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Product Details
Publisher
Apple Academic Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Bosa Roca, United States
ISBN
9781482216769
SKU
V9781482216769
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Peter Klosse
Peter Klosse, Ph.D., is a professor of gastronomy at Hotel Management School Maastricht, the Netherlands, and owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant at the gastronomic five-star hotel in Apeldoorn. He founded the Academy for Gastronomy in 1991, which offers courses and training on gastronomy and wine and food. The academy is also responsible for training the sommeliers in the Netherlands.
Reviews for The Essence of Gastronomy: Understanding the Flavor of Foods and Beverages
"…it is a volume that leads us to think of food as science flavor and taste and leads us through the intricate relationships. It is a good book that will be of interest to all those who are interested in discovering new facets of this fascinating world." —R. Zamora, Fats & Oils, April-June 2015 "This informative volume presents a ... Read more