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Table Talk: Professor Charles Spence

Feb 13, 2024
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Charles Spence
Professor Charles Spence, an experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford, talks about his food experiments, working with Heston Blumenthal, childhood experiences with food and their impact, low fruit and vegetable consumption in the UK, comfort foods like spicy pasta, and death row and desert island meals.
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Childhood Experiences with Food
01:42 • 25min
3
Consumers' Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and the Rise of Gummies as a Food Format
26:14 • 2min
4
Spicy Pasta, Comfort Foods, and Sweet Preferences
28:34 • 3min
5
Exploring Death Row and Desert Island Meals
31:38 • 2min