FOOD-UE 1051 Lecture Notes - Dumpster Diving, Spinach

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Covered readings: rozin, paul, food is fundamental, fun, frightening, and far reaching (web) Announcements: final exam: cumulative, long essay format, probably greater focus on second half of semester (post-midterm), final review on the 9th during recitation (not mandatory, bring notes, syllabus, questions), suggestion: make a family tree of connections. Clark, dylan, the raw and the rotten (f&c: what determines disgust. Disgust is physiological (gag, cringe, nausea) and cultural (associations with animal nature, uncultured, death) Rozin believes that the mind creates positive or negative associations to foods. A value system is attached to food, imbed notions of health. Believes that disgust is often due to a food"s origins, not necessarily the food"s form/being (worms are from dirt/mud) Many find used clothing disgusting - disgust of the unknown, intimacy, connection to stranger"s body, self-contamination. Related themes: food choice, fear, associations, human/animal divide. We are predisposed to sweetness while we acquire enjoyment of bitter foods.

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