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John McQuaid

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White Plains, NY, The United States

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John McQuaid has written about city-destroying super-termites, the slow collapse of fishing communities, hurricane levee engineering, mountaintop removal coal mining, and the global flower business for various publications, including Smithsonian magazine, The Washington Post, Wired, Forbes.com and EatingWell magazine. His work has won a Pulitzer Prize, as well as awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Biological Sciences, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, son and daughter. The struggle to satisfy and understand the kids' strange and contradictory food choices (the elder liked super-hot peppers and limes, th ...more

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Average rating: 3.57 · 503 ratings · 88 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat 3.54 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2015 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina by Jenni Bergal (Contributor), Dan Rather (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Sara Shipley Hiles (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Effects Of Cognitive Load On Participation Of Online Learners 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mad Marquis of Waterford: The night when the toffs painted the town of Melton Mowbray red. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tasty by John McQuaid (2015-01-13) by John McQuaid (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Path of Destruction by Mark Schleifstein, John McQuaid (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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John McQuaid's Blog: Tasty

Talking Taste with NPR's Weekend Edition

I was on NPR's Weekend Edition with Rachel Martin on Sunday. She covered quite a lot of ground in a short time. One of the most fascinating things about researching Tasty was exploring the evolution of the senses of taste and smell (the two biggest components of flavor), which originated way, way back at the dawn of life itself. Then at crucial evolutionary turning points, they grew sharper, and b Read more of this blog post »

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