this volume provides a clear example of how palatal taste can be fruitfully interrogated as an embodied archive of long- term patterns of interaction between the local and global at various tiers. It shows us how taste can also reveal the limits of the ubiquitous presumptions of national cultures. But first it forces us to unthink eighteenth- century Western formulations that have trivialize…
Dr Opara had an interest in medicinal plants, so I decided to pitch a specific research project idea concerning the impact of food processing and cooking on the antioxidant properties of a selection of culinary herbs and spices, rather than select one of the undergraduate research topics offered that year. This project idea was not only warmly welcomed and approved but was eventually awarded a…