ABSTRACT
The holistic experience of eating is the integration of myriad senses. While the scientific zeitgeist has focused on the ultimate and penultimate sensations of retronasal olfaction and gustation, other less clearly defined sensations warrant heuristic exploration. These include visual, auditory, thermal, somesthetic, and nociceptive. The impact of visual sensation on nutrition has been delineated in Chapters 6 and 7 of this book, and of auditory sensation by Alan Hirsch in Chapter 10 of this book. Thus, not for remplissage but rather for the axiopisty of consumption, these other senses are presented in this chapter.
