Matters of Taste.(Book Review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 14-JUL-03

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"It's hard to understand how something that tastes sweet in one person's mouth, in another person's mouth can taste so bitter," a friend tells Abe Opincar, whose memoir, Fried Butter (Soho), explores the ways in which memory dictates gustatory preference. For others, it's a matter of social class. In...

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