Your mouth: The most effective tool to change the world | Charles Michel | TEDxHackney

You have the best tool to change the world: You mouth, and it has much more power than you would have thought.

Graduated from ‘Institut Paul Bocuse’ cookery school in Lyon, France in 2006. After a classical training in kitchens in France and Italy, including two years at the three Michelin-starred restaurant “Dal Pescatore”, his work as a cook took a turn in a collaborative research with professor Charles Spence, applying insights from sensory and psychological science to culinary creations. He has worked in Europe and South America, managing his own consulting and culinary services brand for the past 7 years; teaching in cookery schools, developing restaurant and hospitality concepts, consulting for food industry, and delivering private high-end dinners. He is currently conducting research as Chef-in-residence at the Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. His work focuses on understanding the role of the senses in modulating flavour perception, with a particular interest in the visual aestheti

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