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This one-day business conference brought together leading chefs and key stakeholders to identify the main areas of science and innovation within the gastronomy industry. ​Food Meets Science tries to find answers to different questions – from general ones: what is the difference between taste and flavor? how smell and taste are interacting together? why do we like one thing and another is disgusting for us? to more specific ones like: what happens in your brain when you’re looking at food? is the genetic profile of dining people important in designing gastronomic experiences?

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prof. Charles Spence
Head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory Oxford University, UK
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Joan Roca
El Celler de Can Roca Girona, Spain
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Davide Oldani
D’O San Pietro all’Olmo, Milano, Italy
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Dr. Paul Smeets
Division of Human Nutrition and Health
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Wojciech Modest Amaro
Atelier Amaro Warsaw, Poland
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Pia Leon
Kjolle Barranco, Peru
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Dr. Nicola Pirastu
Usher Institute, the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
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Grant Achatz
Alinea Chicago, USA
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Vladimir Mukhin
White Rabbit Moscow, Russia
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Food Meets Science tries to find answers to different questions – from general ones: what is the difference between taste and flavor? how smell and taste are interacting together? why do we like one thing and another is disgusting for us? to more specific ones like: what happens in your brain when you’re looking at food? is the genetic profile of dining people important in designing gastronomic experiences?

Questions like these lead to a debate among the experts. To what extent can science answer the questions that emerge from the chefs’ observations in the kitchen? To what point these observations can help to develop new fields of research? Food Meets Science unites two disciplines: science and cooking.

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prof. Charles Spence
Head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory Oxford University, UK

Gastrophysics, the new science of eating, focuses attention on ‘the everything else’ apart from the food that nevertheless still influences the tasting experience, be it in the high-end restaurant or the home: Everything from the colour of the plate on which the food is served, through the weight of the cutlery that is used to consume it (assuming that there is any, which can’t always be guaranteed these days), not to mention the music that happens to be playing in the background.

Gastrophysics aims to bring the scientific approach, inspired by the latest neuroscience insights concerning the multisensory integration of the cues from taste, smell, touch, sight and sound, together with the best in culinary artistry, in order to help design more engaging, more enjoyable, and more memorable experiences for diners in the future.

Spence, C. (2017). Gastrophysics: The new science of eating. London, UK: Penguin; Winner of the 2019 Le Grand Prix de la Culture Gastronomique from Académie Internationale de la Gastronomie.

Professor Charles Spence is a prize-wining experimental psychologist who researches the factors that influence what we choose to eat and what we think about the experience with the likes of world-leading chefs. His focus in on applying the latest insights concerning the multisensory nature of perception to everyday life. He is the author of the 2014, Prose prize-winning “The perfect meal” with Betina Piqueras- Fiszman, the international bestseller “Gastrophysics: The new science of eating” (2017; Penguin Viking) – winner of the 2019 Le Grand Prix de la Culture Gastronomique from Académie Internationale de la Gastronomie, and Multisensory Packaging Design (2019; Palgrave MacMillan). He is a regular on TV and Radio, and has been profiled by The New Yorker.

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