Cooking, Eating, Tasting

If we turn on our TV set at any time, chances are we will hit a cooking program. Cooking seems to be a very popular activity, and TV-chefs can rise to the status that not so long ago seemed reserved for rock-stars or singers high on the charts. Most of our sensory systems are active in eating, and they share several properties. However around the typical ‘eating’ senses of smell, flavour, taste, mouthfeel some confusion exists. They also have been severely under-researched compared to vision and audition.