Food Preferences and Taste

<p> Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists ethologists and ethnologists psychologists neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic.</p>