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Around the planet, everyday, people sell food at street markets and megastores, buying anywhere and everywhere, cooking in kitchens, --indoors and outdoors-- and serving on tables and plates at homes, restaurants, parks and slums.
Food Culture explores patterns of abundance and scarcity, eating and hunger, health and sickness, indulgence and dieting.
--tr. 1. To distinguish the flavor of by taking into the mouth. A. To hear the taste of love. 2. To eat or drink a small quantity of. 3. To partake of, especially for the first time; experience. B. To enjoy the taste of tongues. 4. To perceive as if by the sense of taste. C. To sense the taste of danger. 5. Archaic. To appreciate or enjoy.
--intr. 1. To distinguish flavors in the mouth. 2. To have a distinct flavor. D. To perceive the taste of markets. 3. To eat or drink a small amount. 4. To have experience or enjoyment; partake.
--taste n. E . To miss the taste of breast milk. 1.a. The sense that distinguishes the sweet, sour, salty, and bitter qualities of dissolved substances in contact with the taste buds on the tongue. F. To notice the taste of hunger strikes. G. To dream about the taste of weddings. b. This sense in combination with the senses of smell and touch, which together receive a sensation of a substance in the mouth. H. To push the taste of kitchen odors. 2.a. The sensation of sweet, sour, salty, or bitter qualities produced by or as if by a substance placed in the mouth. I. To sweeten the taste of contracts. J. To drink the taste of pollution. b. The unified sensation produced by any of these qualities plus a distinct smell and texture; flavor. K. To twist the taste of restaurant culture. c. A distinctive perception as if by the sense of taste. L. To feel the taste of violence. 3. The act of tasting. M. To forgive the taste of manners. 4. A small quantity eaten or tasted. N. To savor the taste of architecture. 5. A limited or first experience; a sample. O. To purchase the taste of abstinence and gluttony. 6. A personal preference or liking. P. To erase the taste of table offerings. 7.a. The faculty of discerning what is aesthetically excellent or appropriate. Q. To smell the taste of instant food. R. To announce the taste of anthropology. R. To study the taste of pain. B. A manner indicative of the quality of such discernment. 8.a. The sense of what is proper, seemly, or least likely to give offense in a given social situation. S. To collect the taste of tomorrow’s food. T. To intuit the taste of death. W. To articulate the taste of recycling. b. A manner indicative of the quality of this sense. 9. Obsolete. The act of testing; trial. X. To suffer the taste of shopping. Y. To expect the taste of money. Z. To inhale the taste of joy. -tas·ta·ble adj.
Inspired in the Oxford Dictionary definition of taste.