Kiowa County Public Library District

What do you know about the sense of taste? Our senses help us observe and understand our world. This curricular topic is explored though an integrated approach to learning with embedded SEL questions and family/educator engagement tips at the beginning and end of each book. Engaging photos and leveled text help teach young readers about their senses, and questions encourage readers to think like a scientist.

Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from red snapper? How Brie differs from cheddar? For most of us, unfortunately, the answer is: badly. Flavor remains a vague, undeveloped concept we don't know enough about to describe-or to appreciate-fully. In Flavor, Bob Holmes shows us just how much we're missing. He tackles questions like why cake tastes sweetest on white plates, how wine experts' eyes fool their noses, and how language affects...

Children about the sense of taste through colorful illustrations and simple text.

"Ingeniously built around the use of eight umami-rich ingredients -- aged cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, soy sauce, miso, caramelized onions, smoke, and nutritional yeast -- the 75 recipes here are bursting with the sublime, savory fifth taste. Turn mushrooms into 'lardons' for a bold take on Southern black-eyed peas and greens. Caramelize onions to create the best grilled cheese ever. Add a secret spoonful of soy sauce to your next chocolate cake --...

"The founder of the national empires Umami Burger and 800 Degrees Pizza shows how to detonate flavor in beloved dishes using ordinary ingredients high in umami; Why does everyone love burgers and pizza? When Adam Fleischman investigated, he discovered what they--and many other ultra-flavorful dishes have in common: umami. A renegade self-taught cook, Fleischman deployed this savory "fifth dimension of taste" to ratchet up flavor using ingredients...

The sense of taste helps animals determine what is delicious, and what is deadly. Animals have evolved a wide variety of taste preferences and abilities. For instance, an octopus has ten thousand taste buds on each one of its arms' suckers; a bison has a great knack for using taste to avoid toxic plants while grazing, and gorillas and chimps like sweet-tasting food. With interesting, easy-to-understand text and vivid pictures, this book explores the...

Flowers, leaves, seeds, roots, fruits, dairy foods, and meats are sampled at different types of food tasting parties.

Teaches young readers about the sense of taste.

"Jim Panzee gives the same answer whenever he is offered something unfamiliar to eat YUCK! He gives that same answer when he's encouraged to just try it. But when picky eater Jim is offered a snack that promises to be sweet and tasty, he just might give inand discover that he likes it! Here's a story for all those toddlers whose all-purpose response to any new food is Yuck."--Publisher's description.