Tasty (35 page)

Thaumatin,
132

Thaumatococcus danielli
,
132

This, Hervé,
219
–20

Thousand and One Nights, The
,
113

Thresh, John Clough,
177

Thujone,
75
–76

Tierra del Fuego,
138
,
142
,
154

Timaeus
(Plato),
5

Tishkoff, Sarah,
67
–68

Tofu,
78
,
215

Tokyo Imperial University,
234

Tomatoes,
96
,
132
,
164
,
232
,
236
,
241
–42

Tongue map,
1
–5,
8
,
13
,
60
,
200

Toronto, University of,
56
,
57
,
148

Touch, sense of,
6
,
7
,
48
,
98
,
163
,
179

disgust and,
137
–39,
149
,
153

evolution of,
34

of infants,
100

receptors for,
180
,
195

Toxins,
49
,
90
,
143
,
151
,
164
,
253
n

Travel Channel,
151

Trigeminal nerve,
180

Trilobites,
18
–23

Trimethylamine oxide (TMAO),
151

Tryon, Thomas,
115
–18

T2R1,
62

Tulane University,
124
–25

Turkey,
84
,
86
,
88
,
102

23andMe genetic testing service,
58

Twitter,
230

2-methylpropanal,
93

Uganda,
244

Ultimatum game,
148

Umami,
4
,
95
–98,
158
,
215
,
225
,
228
,
234
–37

chemical version of,
97

DNA for,
207

evolution of,
34
,
39
,
90
,
163

of processed foods,
192
,
194
,
202

receptors for,
60
,
96
–97,
235

virtual,
213

United Kingdom.
See
Britain

United States,
76

Army, Natick Laboratories,
200
–202

Defense Department,
141

junk food in,
192

Patent and Trademark Office,
236

potato chips in,
190
,
194

prisons in,
198

University College London,
66
,
100

Uruguay,
135

Vanderbilt University,
89

Van Gogh, Vincent,
75
–76

Vegetarianism,
116
–17

Velosa, Gonzalo de,
115

Venezuela,
167

Vertebrates, evolution of,
21
,
26
,
69

Vezina, Gaetane,
57

Vietnam War,
200

Vikings,
152

Virtual reality,
213

Vision,
5
,
6
,
21
,
48
,
203

evolution of,
28
–31,
35

Visual cortices,
31
,
143
,
195

Von Economo neurons,
147

Ward, Jamie,
100
–101

Washington, University of,
165

Wasps,
80

Watson computer system,
233
–34

West Virginia, soda tax in,
108

Wild children,
154
–55

Wilde, Oscar,
75

Wine,
12
,
20
,
58
,
156
,
204
,
222
,
242
–43

alcohol content of,
81
,
98

in ancient world,
82
–83,
102
,
103
,
112
,
130

biochemistry of,
233

distilled,
77

fermentation of,
78
–80,
89

in Mediterranean diet,
70

tastings,
4
,
7

Wise, Roy,
123
–24,
263
n

Wooding, Stephen,
62

Woods, Nick,
162

World War II,
62
,
189

Wormwood,
75

Wrangham, Richard,
41

Yahgan tribe,
135
–38,
149
,
151
,
153
,
154
,
159

Yale University,
68
,
129
,
240

Yeasts,
19
,
69
,
82
,
84
–85,
98
,
217
–18,
225

baker's,
79
–80,
89

Yogurt,
78
,
87
,
89
,
105
,
203
,
218

Yucatan Peninsula, meteor strike off,
28

Zapotec peoples,
183
,
184

Zuker, Charles,
196

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