Part 1. How you eat with your eyes
The color of flavor: is there such a thing as blind faith at the dinner table?
A plate of art: how much does it cost to eat with your eyes?
Dish decisions: how does plating affect your appetite?
All you can see: how do you control how much you eat at the buffet?
Supermarket schemes: why do you always fail to stick to the shopping list?
Celebrity advice fairy tales: what qualifies celebrities to give health advice
Part II. How you diet with your brain
The raw food fallacy: how does cooking make you smart?
Gluten anxiety: why do you keep falling for food myths?
Carb phobia: how do carbohydrates help you survive?
"Lose ten pounds fast!": you've tried every diet
why don't any of them work?
Enough is enough: why don't you know when you're full?
Love, the anti-diet: is your partner making you fat?
The doggie bag paradox: why should you think twice before taking your leftovers home?
Part III. How you savor with your ears
Music to your...stomach: how does the sizzle make you salivate?
Smack-and-slurp phobia: how can you tell if you;re a misophonic?
The flavor of music: what soundtrack should you play at your next dinner party?
The perfect chip: how do you hear what you eat?
The "unhealthy = tasty intuition": why does junk food sound so good?
Status anxiety à la carte: why is the language of menus full of red herrings?
Part IV. How you think with your stomach
"How can you eat that?": why do some delicacies delight and others disgust you?
The marketing-placebo effect: why is there no veritas in vino?
The priming effect: why doesn't Häagen-Dazs ice cream come from Denmark?
The health-halo effect: what do you think of as "healthy"
The Rome-and-Juliet effect: why does absence make your cravings stronger?
Sleep yourself slim: how does what you eat affect how you sleep?
the feeding clock: how can eating help you beat jet lag?
Part V. How you feast with your feelings
"I'll have what you're having": why do you order what you order at restaurants?
Nudging: how do you choose what to eat in a cafeteria?
The food radius: how can you shape your food environment
and how does it shape you?
The trophy kitchen syndrome: why doesn't renovating your kitchen always make you happy?
Working lunch: for business, for pleasure, or for health?
Fast manners: how did handling fast food get so out of hand?
Stress-free slurping: why is drinking a milkshake so calming?
The comfort food effect: why do you crave junk food when you're sad?
Part VI. How you choose with your tongue
Supertasters: do children who will eat only pasta have supertasting powers?
Some like it hot: what does a fondness for spicy foods reveal about your character?
Conditions of taste: are your favorite foods innate or selected through memory?
Mind over meat: why do cats sit on your lap and cows on your plate?
Hooray for haptics: how do you experience the pleasure of taste through touch?
Taste the aroma: how do you taste what you smell?
Chew on this: why should you treat forks with caution?
The pineapple fallacy: why do you like what you like?