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Why Are American Chips So Boring?
All those tech-driven foods are still around, but they don’t tempt consumers the way they once did. Instead, the fastest growing categories in the food business are built on an entirely different vocabulary: gourmet, artisan, healthy, organic, nutritious, sustainable, local, homemade.
Ted Gioia • Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
while the taste for sweetness is innate to all human beings and common to all cultures, when it comes to actual sweet foods—and other unhealthy processed foods—we show profoundly varied responses.
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
Hunger, apparently, is the best sauce.
Michael Easter • The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
whether something provokes immediate like or dislike. Taste’s moral capacity, the idea that it generally leads an individual toward a better society as well as better culture, is being lost. Instead, taste amounts to a form of consumerism in which what you buy or watch is the…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“flavor-nutrient” conditioning—the idea that we like what makes us feel good, even if we do not know it.