Jacques Puisais
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Jacques Puisais is a French
France
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 oenologist and taste philosopher.
Holder of a PhD in chemistry, he directed the laboratoire départemental et régional d'analyse in Tours
Tours
Tours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.It is located on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection of its local spoken French, and for the...


He starts giving courses of taste education in 1964. He's a member of the INAO
Institut National des Appellations d'Origine
The Institut National des Appellations d'Origine is the French organization charged with regulating French agricultural products with Protected Designations of Origin . Controlled by the French government, it forms part of the Ministry of Agriculture...

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He created the Institut Français du Goût in 1976, in order to develop multidisciplinary research around taste and food sensitivity.
Eager to introduce children to taste, he developed a method of sensory awakening, that has been used in classrooms since then.
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