Free (DRM-free) Smak [Danish Academic Taste Buds Science & Culture Essay w/Audiobook]

[ATDrake]

Smag (Taste) by Susanne Højlund Pedersen (faculty profile), an associate professor in the department of Anthropology at Aarhus, is her Danish-language accessibly-written academic essay on the science of how taste buds work and apparently also both the physiological and cultural effects the sensation of taste seems to have on us, #40 in the Tænkepauser ("Reflections", beginning to become available in English translation on their webpage here) series of 60-page shorts designed to provide a 60-minute introduction to assorted cultural/intellectual ideas for laypersons, free courtesy of the Aarhus University Press in Denmark.

This is the current offering in their generous freebie program which gives away the latest one and its accompanying audiobook reading as a freebie, which has now changed to a term of just for one week after publication.

Currently free through June 13th, Danish time @ the Aarhus University Press (DRM-free ePub & PDF available worldwide, scroll down and expand where it says "Om bogen" to download the MP3 "som lydbog")

Beskrivelse på dansk
I Kina spiser de hunde. Det gør vi ikke i Danmark, det er synd for vovsen. Til gengæld elsker vi en finthakket griselever. Hver sin smag, som vi siger. Det kan der være noget om. Men ifølge Susanne Højlund, smagsdommer ved Aarhus Universitet, bestemmer vi ikke selv vores livret. Det gør dem, vi lever sammen med. Eller indeni - i hvert fald de første ni måneder, efter at far og mor fik smag for hinanden. De brugte nok ikke kun tungen. Det bør alle vi andre heller ikke gøre, når vi spiser. Vi får en meget bedre smag i munden, hvis vi bruger alt fra top til tå.