PASSAGE 3: Why good food tastes good?

As a professional food developer, Barbara Stuckey has to understand the how and why of taste in order to create new palate-pleasing food products. Her book, Taste What You're Missing, is the latest release in a recent spate of books on the multisensory perception of flavor. This new volume, though, is certainly targeted at a somewhat different audience from the others. It is part memoir, detailing the author's many years working in a major North American company focused on developing novel food and beverage products, and part self-help book, offering advice on how we could all improve our ability to taste.