# Event Details - **Event Name**: Lecture + Drinks Night! I'll Have What She's Having: The Science of Taste - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Why does food taste good (or terrible)? A fun neuroscience talk on flavor, the brain, and why taste is more than your tongue.About this EventJoin us and grab a drink as Professor Don Katz explores what actually makes food taste good — and why taste is mostly happening in your brain.Welcome to Binge Thinking! We host professors at local pubs to give talks on fascinating topics.Topic: I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Science of What Makes Food Taste GoodSpeaker: Professor Don Katz (Brandeis University, Psychology & Neuroscience)Join us for a fascinating evening with Professor Don Katz as he explains how taste really works — and why flavor is about far more than your tongue.When you take a bite of food, it feels like the experience is happening entirely in your mouth. But the reality is much stranger: what we call “taste” is actually flavor, and flavor emerges from the brain combining signals from smell, texture, temperature, memory, expectation, and emotion. In fact, nearly the entire brain participates in deciding whether something tastes delicious or disgusting.In this talk, Professor Katz will explore the neuroscience of taste and disgust, showing how perception, learning, and biology work together to shape what we love to eat — and what we can’t stand.Professor Katz is a Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University, where he teaches behavioral neuroscience and studies the neural dynamics of taste and the gustatory system. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington and his B.A. from Brown University, and is an award-winning teacher recognized for excellence in teaching and mentoring.Don’t miss this opportunity to rethink something you experience every day: eating.Agenda7:00 PM – Doors open: find a seat and order some drinks.7:30 PM – Host introduction7:35 PM – Lecture begins8:15 PM – Audience Q&A8:30-9:00 PM – Feel free to mingle with the speaker and fellow guests. 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