TASTY The Art and Science of What We Eat

Narrator Tom Perkins’s delectable performance highlights the multiple aspects of taste. Moving the listener fluidly through this detailed examination, he explains how taste affects evolution and provides insight into culture, geography, and mood. Perkins conveys reports on scientific studies in a clear voice coupled with precise diction. To keep things entertaining, he even delivers individual voices for some of the experiments’ subjects. Navigating the dynamic text with credible accents and well-timed inflections, Perkins brings out the elusive and surprising qualities of taste and how they relate to the range of human emotion. M.F. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2015]