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ART724 / 30.04.2024

 Alinea has been universally praised for its innovative approach to modernist cuisine. It has been named the Best Restaurant in the World by Elite Traveler, the Best Restaurant in North America by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, and the Best Restaurant in the U.S. by Gourmet and Business Insider. It is one of only 14 restaurants in the U.S. to earn the coveted Michelin 3-Star rating. It has also won James Beard Awards for Outstanding Restaurant in the U.S., Outstanding Service in the U.S., and Outstanding Chef in the U.S. ...

ART724 / 28.04.2024

In 1998 I picked up a portabella mushroom in a market, held it up to the light, and imagined that it was some kind of canopy tree in an alien world. I took it back to my studio and with a handful of beans and rice, I created my first Foodscape. Ten years later, with a couple of dozen images in my portfolio, the work was discovered by the media and the images went viral around the globe. Stumbling across something that is original is not easy in a time when most things have been done or thought of before. My...

ART724 / 26.04.2024

Our experience of the sensory environment is determined not only by the physical characteristics of stimuli, but also by beliefs, prior knowledge, and expectations (Gibson, 1966, 1979; O'Regan & Noe, 2001; Rosch, Varela, & Thompson, 1991). Taste perception, in particular, is influenced by a variety of factors beyond primary sensory information. Characteristics such as color, texture, odor, price, and fat content have been shown to give rise to expectations that influence subsequent flavor evaluations (e.g., Cardello & MacFie, 2007; DuBose, Cardello, & Maller, 1980; Koch & Koch, 2003; Levitan, Zampini, Li, & Spence, 2008; Shankar, Levitan, Prescott, & Spence, 2009; Zampini, Wantling, Phillips, & Spence, 2008; Zellner & Durlach, 2003). The...

ART724 / 16.04.2024

Taste is a sense that enables humans to chemically analyze substances that enter our mouths. Over the millennia, taste helped human bodies avoid foods that were toxic or deadly, thus affecting their survival. Moreover, for humans, tasting allows us to personalize our culinary preferences. Thanks to it, we can recognize stale or spoiled food products, which protects us against dangerous food poisoning.The sense of taste is one of the five senses in humans (along with sight, hearing, smell and feeling/touch). Taste sensations are a combination of five basic tastes:bitter,salty,sweet,sour,umami – the taste of glutamic acid. Taste sensations are not related to...