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“Bourdieu's interpretation was that tastes were serving as strategic tools. While working-class tastes seemed mainly a default (serving at best to express group belongingness…

— Carl Wilson

“Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.”

— Pierre Bourdieu

“Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other settings.”

— James Dale Davidson

“Our preferences or opinions cannot always be explained or rationalized. There is no accounting for taste. But we can always adjust things to our…

— Erik Pevernagie

“The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that…

— Alice B. Toklas

“To he "over-choiced" with thirty different kinds of bread does indeed develop the shopper's awareness of differentiation and sense of taste. However, from the…

— Dorothee Soelle

“Human taste is a curious thing; delicacy is purely a matter of environment and point of view. (Quoting John Hay)”

— Franklin J. Meine

“In essence, individuals more concerned with portraying their own uniqueness were more likely to select an alcoholic beverage not yet ordered at their table…

— Dan Ariely

“Having a ‘taste for life’ is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.”

— Fennel Hudson

The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most…

— Grayson Perry

“In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination becomes a form of protest.…

— Lynn Hoffman

After the passing of my personal hero, Anthony Bourdain, I've been reflecting a lot on his influence on food culture. He made street food…

— Antoni Porowski