{"id":10933,"date":"2014-12-18T19:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T19:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=10933"},"modified":"2014-12-18T19:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T19:05:05","slug":"the-perfect-meal-with-professor-charles-spence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wine-science\/the-perfect-meal-with-professor-charles-spence","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Meal, with Professor Charles Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just written up the launch of Professor Charles Spence&#8217;s new book, <em>The Perfect Meal<\/em>. It&#8217;s a really good book that examines how science can help us understand what it is that\u00a0creates\u00a0an epic dining experience, and the insights he shared at the launch were brilliant. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/wineanorak.com\/the%20perfect%20meal%20charles%20spence.htm\" target=\"_blank\">read my extensive report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short film of the man in action at the launch:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px;\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hbpn5ljrbBk?color2=FBE9EC&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hbpn5ljrbBk?color2=FBE9EC&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/center>The book itself is fabulous, but it is quite academic, in that it is fully referenced. I should imagine this isn&#8217;t a problem to most readers of this blog. It&#8217;s certainly accessible to non-scientists, but there&#8217;s plenty of scientific meat here to be digested.<\/p>\n<p>To buy from amazon in the UK:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1118490827\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1118490827&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewineanorak&amp;linkId=NBEOBMPUVRWWNKVU\">The Perfect Meal: The Multisensory Science of Food and Dining<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thewineanorak&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=1118490827\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To buy from amazon.com:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1118490827\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1118490827&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=wineanorakcom-20&amp;linkId=VCBFGWPI7RAM62HR\">The Perfect Meal: The Multisensory Science of Food and Dining<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=wineanorakcom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1118490827\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just written up the launch of Professor Charles Spence&#8217;s new book, The Perfect Meal. It&#8217;s a really good book that examines how science can help us understand what it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,6],"tags":[383],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-wine-science","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10934,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions\/10934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}