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How Taste Changed the World with Adam Liaw

By: Adam Liaw, Josh Martin
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 new 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.

    This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members.

    ©2022 i8 Studio Pty Ltd. (P)2022 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.
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Episodes
  • Ep 1: The Case for Taste

    Ep 1: The Case for Taste
    May 4 2022
    Adam Liaw cracks the code of taste in cooking. He is joined by superstar chef, author and restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi who explains how taste guides our hand in the kitchen even when we aren’t even thinking about it.
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    33 mins
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  • Ep 2: Sweet

    Ep 2: Sweet
    May 4 2022
    Our taste for sweetness guided our evolutionary forebears to energy-rich fruit but its effect on civilisation has been anything but sweet. Facilitating the enslavement of millions and bringing forth the Industrial Revolution.
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    40 mins
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  • Ep 3: Bitter

    Ep 3: Bitter
    May 4 2022
    Bitterness helps us avoid toxic foods. Yet in the case of chocolate, coffee, tea and pepper - many of our favourite foods are bitter. Our quest for these foods directly resulted in globalisation and even modern democracy.
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    45 mins
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World Cooking Gastronomy Economic History
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Food for thought!

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.

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Lots to get your teeth into

Full of fascinating information. An interesting blend of history and chemistry looking at the way we have developed taste.

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