Culinary Canvas: A Series on Integrating the Arts and Food into Higher Education Series
Tasting Education
Viewing Curriculum, Pedagogy, Learning, and Educational Research Through the Sense of Taste
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Published: March 2026
9781975508265
$41.95
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Publisher: Myers Education Press
6" x 9"Language: English
Why is the sense of taste so conspicuously absent from contemporary educational research and so severely rationed in the ways it is lived in universities schools? After all, in the world, taste is a perceptual and epistemological powerhouse in the complicated process of staying alive as well as living a life. Taste is also a process of world making. It’s a way of reading, naming, mapping, imagining, remembering, and making worlds and connecting to the worlds of others-therefore it is curricular.
In attending to how taste matters and matters of taste, chapters in Tasting Education: Viewing Curriculum, Pedagogy, Learning, and Educational Research Through the Sense of Taste invite participants to think about taste as a sense, and/or the sense of taste, as it plays out in the thinking and doing of education and its inquiry. This book takes up taste as an embodied set of meanings that are sensuous, pragmatic, and political: as a key part of the sensorium, and as engagement with the sensuosity of the olfactory, the nose, the mouth, the tongue as a way of making meaning of food, but also ways for making meaning from the food for thought and action that theory can provide. It also asks us to take into account the culture of food as it relates to education; whose palates are catered to and whose remain marginalized, deliberately destroyed, or are left-unfed? Taste, then, also becomes a way of resisting, challenging, and reimagining such modes as they play themselves out in curriculum and pedagogy and reveal collective commitments that include shared pleasure alongside political and social action (Siniscalchi, 2018). This book offers a space for deeper conversations around taste in curriculum and elsewhere, and how taste is being used to dismantle oppression in these spaces. The slow-food movement argues that “taste and pleasure” must return to the table (Siniscalchi, 2018). Tasting Education invites the mixed pleasures and problematics of taste to the table of educational research as well.
Tasting Education will appeal to faculty and students in graduate-level courses related to curriculum, instruction, social foundations and leadership studies, as well as those involved with food studies courses.
Foreword by T. Jameson Brewer
Introduction by Zulitazhira Hinojosa and Laura M. Jewett
Chapter 1. Relationalities of (More-Than) Tasting Education: An Artographic Journeying
by Andrie Savva
Chapter 2. Food for Thought: A Métissage of Taste, Place, Identity, and Slowness in Education
by Sonam Dema, Aleksandra Dubinina, Narges Mansouri, Rui Yin, and Wanda Hurren
Chapter 3. Tasting Our Way Out of the Classroom: Experiential Learning in Sociology of Food
by Katherine Everhart
Chapter 4. Whatever Salt Is: Taste, Affect, and the Building of Relational Knowledge
by Anastasia Goodwin
Chapter 5. Tasty Fables
by Zulitazhira Hinojosa
Chapter 6. Sweet, Bitter, Spicy, and Complex: A Taste-Centered Perspective on Teacher Education
(Re)viewing Teacher Education through Taste
by Suzanne Porath
Chapter 7. Savoring Knowledge: A Feminist Critical Lens on Taste in Education and Care
by Erin K. West
Chapter 8. Bitter, Sweet, and Umami: Affective Sensory Encounters in Mother–Daughter Artistic Pedagogy
by Hsin Fang
Chapter 9. There Ain’t No Sugar in Cornbread: Food and the Veil of Nostalgia in Southern Place
by Ugena Whitlock
Chapter 10. Taste Test: Probing Primary Tastes to Overcome a Vapid Curriculum
by Clover Johnson
Chapter 11. Taste as an Act of Resistance
by Patricia Ramirez-Biondolillo
Chapter 12. Taste as Method: Gastronomy and Interdisciplinary Food Pedagogy in Chocolate: Politics and Pleasure at Chatham University
by Sally Frey and Emily Schostack
Chapter 13. A Golden Ticket to Taste: On the Current State of Cocoa Quality Education
by Carla D. Martin and José López Ganem
Chapter 14. Cultivating Vegetables and Taste in the Urban Food Desert
by Ellen Kang
Chapter 15. Taste, Identity, and Resistance in Food Justice Movements
by Gabrielle Lenart
Chapter 16. The Neuroqueer Tongue: Rethinking Taste, Sensory Politics, and Inclusive Futures in Education
by Ginney Norton
Chapter 17. A Taste of Life and Death: Towards Curricular Palate Cleansers Against Necropolitics, Biosocial Fatalism, and Divisions of Empathy
by Patrick Phillips
Chapter 18. Tuning into Taste
by Joanne Yoo
Chapter 19. Tasting Education with Chopsticks: A Diasporic Hakka Cuisine
by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook
Chapter 20. Eat Me: Taste, Desire, and What it Means to Want to Know
by Laura M. Jewett
About the Authors
Index
NOTE: Table of Contents subject to change up until publication date.