ABSTRACT
This chapter delves into the media that guides sensory education. The focus is on instructions, different forms of which offer different ways of re-orientating sensory learning. I take some very concrete examples to work with, focusing again on food and medicine primarily. First, I look at the exploding world of cookbooks, where celebrity chefs and food writers must instruct the at-home cook how to smell their food, touch their food, taste their food and occasionally, even listen to their food in the form of recipes. I then look at the steps that medical teachers are instructed to take when teaching sensory skills, which, I argue, offers insights into the expressivity of instruction. Finally, I explore the role of television and video in sensory training of both doctors and amateur chefs, particularly how multi-sensorality is used to expand novices’ imaginative space and re-orientate the senses.
