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Taste is often considered the most primitive of the senses because its main task is simple: to distinguish food from other things. However, it is actually the most complex and subtle of delicacies. Tasty Book is a concise biography of taste, tracing the strange combinations from its first appearance at the dawn of life on Earth to the cooking invented by early humans to modern food systems. Reporting from kitchens, supermarkets, farms, restaurants, large food companies, and scientific laboratories, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McQuade shows how taste is intertwined with human genetic and individualistic behavior. Tasty Book is offers a smorgasbord of insights into the modern obsession with food and ponders where they will take humanity.