A world of tastes: nature, culture and the making of the palate

Description

Please note: this is a hybrid event and both in-person and online tickets are available.

This is a collaborative event, hosted by gloknos with the Global Food Security IRC and Cambridge Plant Sciences at the Cambridge Festival 2022. It will feature a discussion of the scientific, social and cultural aspects of culinary taste with experts from the academic sector and the food industry.

The panel will bring together experts from the academic sector and the food industry to shed light on the importance of taste in shaping culinary behaviours and practices across cultures, how agri-food science and technology have contributed to the enhancement or creation of flavours in the past decades, and how these have transformed and globalised our relations to natural and processed foods.

Speakers

• Alex Wragge-Morley (Lancaster University)
• Bee Wilson (Food writer and journalist)
• Marieke Hendriksen (KNAW, Amsterdam)
• Inanna Hamati-Ataya (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies / CRASSH)

For queries please email enquiries@crassh.cam.ac.uk.

This event is part of the Cambridge Festival 2022.