The self-made man: creating genius in the Enlightenment

Drinking your way to a new you: self-medication, sensibility, and sociability at the cafø

Living in a world of sound: the pitch-black markets of Paris

Becoming useful citizens: the talents of blind (and blindfolded) children

Blowing smoke up the ass: aromatic medicine and useful science

What is a sense?: sex, self-preservation, pleasure, and pain

Harmonious nature: the cat piano, the ocular harpsichord, and scales of scent and taste

Calling it macaroni: the politics of popular pigments

The gourmand's gaze: visual eating in the postrevolutionary period

Digesting nature: exotic animal dining clubs in nineteenth-century England

Seeing is not believing.