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Enjoying Food: Appetite, Senses, and Etiquette

Learn about the psychological desire to eat, the physical need for food, and how flavor and senses affect our enjoyment of meals. Discover the importance of eating with family and friends and how to enhance meal experiences with proper table settings and etiquette.

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Enjoying Food: Appetite, Senses, and Etiquette

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  1. Chapter 2 Enjoying Food

  2. Enjoying Food • Appetite • **psychological desire to eat • Stimulated by sight and aroma • Sound can also affect appetite • Good appetite = sign of wellness

  3. Hunger • **is the physical need to eat • **fatigue • **light headedness • Sensation of hunger goes away after 20 minutes

  4. Taste Smell Sight Sound Touch What foods appeal to these senses?

  5. Food and Your Emotions • Food satisfies more than physical needs • **Eat from stress • **Eat to express positive emotions

  6. Food Flavor • Flavor • **combines a food’s taste, smell and touch • **papillae—tiny bumps that contain taste buds

  7. Children have a keener sense of taste than adults • **smokers have impaired tastes • **senses are altered = food flavor is altered • Illness/medications can dull sensations and detract from flavor of foods

  8. Eating with your Family • **one family meal a week • **stay at the table until all are finished • **join in family conversation • **extend time together by sharing meal prep and clean up

  9. Eating with Friends • Party or Social Foods • Examples: • **popcorn, pizza, potato wedges, salsa, dips

  10. Field Trip Snacks • **apples, grapes, trail mix, granola bars, string cheese

  11. Mall Foods • **yogurt-fruit smoothies, bagel, oatmeal cookie, hot pretzel

  12. Making Meals Pleasant • **surroundings • **centerpieces • **food served in bowls • **pleasing music not TV • **pleasant table talk

  13. Table Setting • Setting table in specific way • **dishes, cups, flatware (knives, forks, spoons)

  14. Place Setting • **dishes, flatware, glasses and linens for one person

  15. Etiquette • Polite conduct that shows respect and consideration for others • Sitting at the table • Good posture • Elbows off the table

  16. Serving Food • **use serving utensils • **pass food and not reach • **wait until all are served before eating • Buffet service = serving dishes are on a side table

  17. Using Place-setting Items • **unfold napkin • **more than one fork or spoon • (use from the outside first) • **not using knife place it on the top of your plate • (not on table or tablecloth)

  18. Eating • **lift food to your mouth • **lower your head • **use bread instead of fingers to push food • **sip beverages and do not gulp

  19. Awkward Moments • *use napkin to blot mouth • *remove fish bones/pits with napkin • discreetly

  20. Finishing Up • **place napkin neatly to the left of your plate • **place knife and fork parallel across the center of your plate • **offer to clear table • **thank all involved

  21. Practice Tipping • Bill is $34.53 • Tip = $4.00

  22. Bill is $55.87 • Tip = $6.00

  23. Bill is $32.98 • Tip = $4.00

  24. Summary • Appetite is psychological desire to eat • Hunger is physical need to eat • Flavor helps you experience/enjoy food • Eating with family/friends add to enjoyment of meals • Meals are more pleasant when attention is paid to surroundings, table setting and manner

  25. Plan a Menu • Utilize: • Color • Texture • Temperatures

  26. Set the Table • Practice setting a place setting

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