How to taste: a guide to discovering flavor and savoring life

Part one: what is taste? This is your brain on flavor

A matter of individual taste

The flavor of a dining room

Part two: how to taste. The tasting method

Collecting flavors, references, and reflexes

Blinded by sight

Part three: using your tasting skills. Critics, judges, awards, and grades

One plus one makes seven

A poet of the palate

Part four: tasting life. Travel like a taster

What tasters know

Tastes to last a lifetime.