Non- fiction

For this post I am relating the subject of food to hearing using the facts found in the book Natural History of the Senses by: Diane Ackerman. The whole of the book describes how much our different senses affect our lives and perceptions of the out side world. In the chapter I read there was a lot of interesting things in it about how being able to hear the sounds around us affects us in a very profound way. An example is that the first sound we ever hear is that of our mother's heart beat and because of this when we hear a steady strong yet gentle beat it calms us down. This relates to food because we have associated a lot of our foods by the way they sound an example is when I hear meat sizzling on a frying pan I immediately think of bacon and my mouth starts to water even without smelling it or tasting it. From just that sound I can taste the grease goodness of the bacon. There are several other foods we most strongly associate with their sound, like Rice Krispies I mean who hasn't head the “Snap, Crackle, Pop!” of Rice Krispies. Then there is the satisfying crack of a Kit-Kat Bar. There are so many sounds that are in our food that make them more appealing. Do you think that a cracker would be the same if if wasn't crunchy Because I don't think it would be. The is something esthetic to the sound of food.