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How Taste Changed the World with Adam Liaw

By: Adam Liaw
Narrated by: Adam Liaw, Yotam Ottolenghi, Dan Barber, Kenji Lopez-Alt
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Join Australian cook Adam Liaw as he investigates the science and history of our five tastes - sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami. Our taste for salt is vital to our biology but it also turned food into a commodity underpinning global economics for thousands of years. Sweetness that once guided our evolutionary forebears to energy-rich fruits is now used to sell us soft drinks. Deliciously immersive, this epic Audible Original unravels how taste has shaped our food, our society and our planet.

Featuring: Yotam Ottolenghi, Dan Barber, Kenji Lopez-Alt and Fuchsia Dunlop.

Written and produced by Adam Liaw and Josh Martin. Produced by i8 Studio Pty Ltd.

©2022 i8 Studio Pty Ltd (P)2022 Audible Australia Pty Ltd. Food & Wine Gastronomy
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Full of fascinating information. An interesting blend of history and chemistry looking at the way we have developed taste.

Lots to get your teeth into

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Having read similar books based on food and seeds that changed history and geography and its effect on the world, it has been equally thought-provoking to consider how taste has governed these changes too. It has also made me think twice about what I eat which can only be a good thing.

Food for thought!

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