Tasty (33 page)

toolmaking in,
33
–34

Humble cuisine,
191
,
193

Hume, David,
5
–6

Hungary,
169

Hunter-gatherers,
67
,
68
,
78
,
135
,
197
,
211

Huxley, Julian,
62

Hypothalamus,
42
,
121
,
174

IBM,
233
–34

Ice Age,
78

Iceland,
150
–52,
215

Ikeda, Kikunae,
234

Immune system,
72
,
90
,
144

behavioral,
145
,
154

Incas,
193

India,
8
,
66
,
110
–11,
162
,
169
,
181
,
238

Industrial food systems,
191
–92

Industrial Revolution,
114

Inosine 5'-monophosphate,
97

In Search of Lost Time
(Proust),
23
,
94

Insects,
24
,
35
,
75
,
80
,
148
,
232

as food resource,
243
–44

Insula,
95
,
145
–47

International Congress of Genetics (Edinburgh, 1939),
62

Inuit,
66

Iowa, University of,
197

Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary,
39

Iran,
65
,
86
,
112

Ireland,
189
–90,
193

Islam,
112

Isothiocyanates,
72

Israel,
32
,
64

Italy,
70
,
77
,
80
,
156

vineyards in,
80

Itard, Jean-Marc-Gaspard,
155

Iyengar, Sheena,
205

Jains,
111

James, William,
119
–20

Japan,
89
,
141
,
142
,
209
,
234
–35

cuisine of,
215
,
216
,
222
–24,
237
–38

Jasper Hill Farm,
225
–29

Jawless fish,
21
–23,
61

Jeopardy!
(TV show),
233

Jerusalem,
113

Jesus,
197

Jews,
50

dietary laws of,
153

Jiahu (China),
82
–85,
99

Johns Hopkins University,
131

Johnson, Alan Kim,
197

Juba, King,
178

Junk food,
191
,
192
,
212

Kant, Immanuel,
5
–6

Kanzi,
39
–40

Katsuobushi
,
215
–16,
222
,
235

Kautilya,
111

Kehler, Andy and Mateo,
228
–29

Keller, Thomas,
220

Kenya,
38
,
67

Keysers, Christian,
11

Kickstarter,
212

Kilimanjaro, Mount,
45

Kitab al-Tabikh
,
112

Klee, Harry,
242

Koji
,
85
,
89
–90,
222

Kurti, Nicholas,
219
,
230

Kuru,
141

Kuyavia (Poland),
88

Lactobacillus
,
87
,
88
,
151

Lactose,
87
–88,
225

Lahousse, Bernard,
232
–33

Lake Assal,
44
–45

Lalueza-Fox, Carles,
63

Landrau, Jacob,
50
–52

Laudan, Rachel,
191

Lay's potato chips,
190

Leakey, Louis and Mary,
38

Le Coutre, Johannes,
203

Lee, T. S.,
174
–75,
179

Leknes, Siri,
186

Le Magnen, Jacques,
197
–98

Lepper, Mark,
205

Liebig, Justus von,
157
–58

Lille, University of,
217

Linemeyer, David,
208

Linnaeus, Carl,
8
,
114

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
143

Louis XVI, King of France,
193

Love and Death
(film),
20

“Lucy,” 36

Mad cow disease,
151

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),
11

functional.
See
Functional MRI (fMRI) scans

Maillard reactions,
40
,
158
,
197
,
230

Malapa cave (South Africa),
36

Malaysia,
80

Malson, Lucien,
154

Mammals,
87
,
143
,
165
,
197

evolution of,
24
–27,
29
,
31
,
34
,
42
,
164

See also
Primates

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France,
193

Martire d'Anghiera, Pietro,
169

Mason, Arnold,
57

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
59

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
36

Maxwell House coffee,
202

McCabe, Ciara,
97

McDonald's,
200
,
236

McGee, Harold,
163
,
220

McGill University,
120

McGovern, Patrick,
81
,
83
–85, 166

McMenamin, Mark,
18
–19,
21
,
26

McQuaid, Hannah,
13
–14,
58
–59,
225
–26

McQuaid, Matthew,
13
–14,
58
–59,
173
,
187

Mead, Margaret,
140
–41

Meal, Combat, Individual (MCI) ration,
200

Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) ration,
201

Meat,
34
,
38
–41,
50
,
68
,
189
,
191
,
195
,
221

bushi
made from,
216
–17,
222
–23

cooking,
32
,
40
,
43
,
44
,
96
,
158
,
192

preserved,
64
,
137
–39,
153
,
156
,
157
,
200
,
222

shark,
151
–52

synthetic,
209
–10

Mediterranean diet,
70

Megatherium,
135

Memory,
15
,
93
,
126
,
198
,
203
–5,
244

brain structures involved in,
26
,
44
,
147
,
206

loss of,
1
,
145

smell and,
23
,
94
,
139

Mendel, Gregor,
54
–56

Merck pharmaceutical company,
176

Methional,
93

Methyl salicylate,
177

Mexico,
18
,
48
,
150
,
166
,
167
,
170
,
183
,
184

pre-Columbian,
50
,
176

Michigan, University of,
122

Microbiology,
79
,
216
,
218
,
221
,
222

Midas, King,
84

Middle Ages,
112
–14,
151

Milner, Peter,
121

Miracle berries,
105
,
106
,
108
,
132

Miraculin,
105
–6,
132
–33

Molds,
89
,
215
–17,
221
–23,
226
–29

Molecular gastronomy,
219
,
220

Mollon, John,
29

Momofuku Culinary Lab,
215
–17,
219
,
221
–24,
227
,
236

Momofuku restaurants,
215
,
239
–41

Monell Chemical Senses Center,
14
–15,
58
,
70

Monkeys,
28
–31,
34
–35,
81
,
127
,
143
,
205

Monosodium glutamate,
107
,
234

Morganucodon oehleri
,
24
–25,
27
,
28
,
31

Morocco,
113
,
178

Moskowitz, Howard,
199
–203,
206

Mount Holyoke College,
18

Mueller, Ken,
60
–61

Muhammad,
112

Murphy, Joe,
189
–90,
194
,
206

Museum of Food and Drink,
240

Muslims,
112
,
113

National Academy of Sciences,
55

National Institutes of Health (NIH),
9
–11,
92
,
141

Native Americans,
66
,
176
.
See also names of tribes

Natural selection,
22
,
30
,
34
–35,
42
,
185

bitterness sensitivity and,
61
,
62
,
66

facial expressions and,
138

Nazism,
141

Neanderthals,
58
,
59
,
63
,
64

Neocortex,
25
,
27
,
42
,
44
,
95

Nestlé Research Center,
203
,
213

Netherlands, lab-grown meat from,
209

Neurons,
15
,
73
,
92
,
95
–97,
102
,
199
,
206

dopamine and,
123
,
126
–28,
185

facial-muscle,
143
,
145
,
147

of hedonic hotspots,
126
,
185
,
186

mapping,
12
,
244

spindle,
147
–48

See also
Receptors

Neurotransmitters,
70
,
123
–29,
145
,
165
,
185

New Guinea,
109
,
114
,
140

New Mexico State University, Chili Pepper Institute,
172

New Orleans,
76

Newton, Isaac,
2
,
7

New York City,
215
,
223
–24,
237
–38

Institute of Culinary Education,
234

International Culinary Center,
240

restaurants and bars in,
215
,
239
–41

sugar consumption in,
108

Nicotine,
164

Nightshade family,
164
,
193

Nobel Prize,
9

Noller, Carl,
53

Nordic Food Lab (Copenhagen),
243
–44

Obesity,
108
,
130
,
150
,
195

Odyssey
(Homer),
102
–3

Olds, James,
120
–23

Olduvai Gorge,
38

Olfactory mechanisms,
23
,
30
,
42
,
59
,
91
–92,
94
,
122
.
See also
Smell, sense of

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
138

Operculum,
95

Opertech Bio,
206
,
208
,
229

Opiates,
125

Optics,
7

Orbitofrontal cortex,
93
,
96
–98,
101
–2,
199
,
203
,
206

damage to,
145
–46

Orexin,
126

Organic chemistry,
157

Oxford University,
43
,
94
,
97
,
186
,
199

Paleolithic diet,
211

Palmer, Kyle,
206
–7

Panama,
81

Paris,
75
,
86
,
156
,
157

Parke-Davis Company,
176
,
177

Parkinson's disease,
123

Parmentier, Antoine-Augustin,
193

Passover,
50

Pasteur, Louis,
217
–18

Pasteur, Marie,
218

Patagonia,
135

Pavlovian conditioning,
194

Penicillium roqueforti
,
89

Penides,
114

Pennsylvania, University of,
67
,
70
,
81
,
148

Permian extinction,
24

Perry, Linda,
166
–67

Persia,
112

Peru,
135
,
163
,
167