Eating and Tasting

In this volume childrean learn to think about how essential their sense of taste is in understanding their reactions to the foods they eat. The part their tongues and noses play in distinguishing the sweet, sour, salty, and bitter tastes of various foods is stressed. Cooked, raw, hot, and cold foods are discusseed, as well as the foods of other cultures and the ways in which certain animals use their sense of taste.