Dedication For Lily and Phoebe, and my brother Rip Contents Cover Title Dedication
Introduction 1 • Nose Job: Tasting has little to do with taste 2 • I’ll Have the Putrescine: Your pet is not like you 3 • Liver and Opinions: Why we eat what we eat and despise the rest 4 • The Longest Meal: Can thorough chewing lower the national debt? 5 • Hard to Stomach: The acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin 6 • Spit Gets a Polish: Someone ought to bottle the stuff 7 • A Bolus of Cherries: Life at the oral processing lab 8 • Big Gulp: How to survive being swallowed alive 9 • Dinner’s Revenge: Can the eaten eat back? 10 • Stuffed: The science of eating yourself to death 11 • Up Theirs: The alimentary canal as criminal accomplice 12 • Inflammable You: Fun with hydrogen and methane 13 • Dead Man’s Bloat: And other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research 14 • Smelling a Rat: Does noxious flatus do more than clear a room? 15 • Eating B
