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18 October 2017

The Un-Instagrammable Dish: why an Oxford professor thinks we should all eat off iPads

“Something that you don’t put in your mouth can nevertheless change the taste of what you are eating.” 

By Amelia Tait

Charles Spence knows how to make good food taste better. Over the years, he has discovered that dinners look and feel more delicious if you use heavy cutlery; that strawberry mousse tastes sweeter on a white plate than on a black one; and that if you amplify the sound of a Pringle being bitten, it tastes 15 percent fresher.

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