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This is an edited version of this programme.

Taste - what exactly is it, how do we taste and how does it develop? Since it declines with age, what is being done to improve meals for the elderly?

What are the tastes that have assailed our senses through the ages? Was the arrival of spices one of the most significant events in culinary history? Sheila Dillon explores these issues and is joined in the studio by Prof Paul Freedman, editor of 'Food: The History of Taste' and author of 'Out of the East'.