- Published: 30 March 2017
- ISBN: 9780241977736
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Gastrophysics
The New Science Of Eating
- Published: 30 March 2017
- ISBN: 9780241977736
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Popular science at its best. Insightful, entertainingly written and peppered throughout with facts you can use in the kitchen, in the classroom, or in the pub
Daniel J. Levitin, New York Times bestselling author of 'The Organized Mind' and 'This Is Your Brain on Music'
Truly accessible, entertaining and informative. On every page there are ideas to set you thinking and widen your horizons
Heston Blumenthal, OBE
His delight in weird food facts is infectious...fascinating
James McConnachie, Sunday Times
Spence allows people to appreciate the multisensory experience of eating
The New Yorker
The scientist changing the way we eat
Guardian
Not many people are as ready to realize the importance of the senses as Charles Spence
Ferran Adria, El Bulli restaurant, Spain
Spence romps around such factoids in the style of a Blue Peter presenter . . . fascinating and provocative
Melanie Reid, Times
A fascinating look at the science of food and how our perception is shaped by all our senses, not just taste
Sunday Times
If simply changing the name of a dish on a menu or the color of the plate on which it is served can dramatically alter our perception of taste and food quality, then everyone in the restaurant industry needs to read this and take a deeper look at the scientific secrets Professor Spence reveals in Gastrophysics
Larry Olmsted, New York Times bestselling author of 'Real Food, Fake Food: What You Don’t Know About What You’re Eating & What You Can Do About It'
Wonderfully curious and thought-provoking . . . brilliant
Bee Wilson, Guardian
Spence cheerily whisks the reader through the senses like a magician . . . a mind-bending menu of fascinating insights
Nicola Davis, Observer
This is partly serious tome and partly an amusing guide for the layperson to a whole new gustatory world. Gastrophysics is packed with such tasty factual morsels that could be served up at dinner parties. If Spence can percolate all these factual morsels to the mainstream, the benefits to all of us would be obvious
Nick Curtis, Daily Telegraph
Revealing, very interesting and well worth understanding . . . highly enlightening
Rose Prince, Spectator
Spence takes a jovial pleasure in puncturing our perceptions and showing that there's a lot more going on in our mouths than what we think we're tasting . . . Spence has given us much food for thought
Julia Platt Leonard, Independent
A chatty whirl through the latest discoveries and their real-world applications
Rachel Laudan, Wall Street Journal
I wanted to reach out and thank you for your absolutely brilliant book Gastrophysics. As a thirty year restaurant veteran just venturing out on my own into the wild world of consulting, I found your research confirmed many of my long-held beliefs while adding tons of things I had never considered.
Sean S. Reiter, Chief Synthesist, Sean Reiter Consulting
It can't fail to entertain, inform and ultimately dazzle
Heston Blumenthal, chef and owner of The Fat Duck, on The Perfect Meal