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All in your Head? In Vino Veritas - Dr. Mary

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Old 02-25-2008, 12:56 AM
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I love wine, an admission that should surprise none of my family or friends or the regular readers of this blog. I’m an oenophile, a lover of the grape, but I would consider myself the farthest thing removed from a wine snob. Sure I love a complex cab with lamb or beef, a [...]

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Old 02-27-2008, 12:19 PM
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Default Re: All in your Head? In Vino Veritas - Dr. Mary

this was kind of interesting...in the study she talks about, people rated the more expensive wine as more enjoyable, even when it was the same wine!

makes you wonder how much of your percieved enjoyment of other foods or drinks is connected to various other perceptions...
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Default Re: All in your Head? In Vino Veritas - Dr. Mary

I think, a lot. People react more favorably to something I may offer them to eat if they DON'T know it's low carb.

...'course, at this point there are very few people I know who don't know that lc is how I cook now.
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