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Columbia University Press gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint excerpts from The Physiology of Taste by Jean Brillat-Savarin, translated by M.F.K. Fisher, copyright 1949 by the George Macy Companies, Inc. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

This, Hervé.

       [Casseroles et éprouvettes. English]
       Molecular gastronomy : exploring the science of flavor / Hervé This ;
  translated by Malcolm DeBevoise.
          p. cm. -- (Arts and traditions of the table)
       Includes bibliographical references and index.
       ISBN 0-231-13312-x (alk. paper)
       1. Food --Sensory evaluation. 2. Flavor. 3. Gastronomy.
  I. Title. II. Series.

  TX546.T5513 2005
  664'.072--dc22

20050053784

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