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Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses (2022)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2022). Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(2), 577-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13708

In this article, I explore how cooking knowledge is constituted and show that a sense of taste is central to it. Drawing on the thick description of domestic couscous preparation in Marrakech, Morocco, I treat taste both as a multisensory form of kno... Read More about Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses.