Flavor as a geographical experience: for hedonist geography

The geographical experience is a complete phenomenon, which involves our relationship with the world in an essential manner. It happens through senses, involving intuition and reasoning, operated by perception, sensation and understanding. The senses are the mediators of this contact between conscience and the world, mediating the geographical experience itself. Among them, taste and flavor were those historically categorized as hedonists, without the faculty of knowledge. However, the contemporary epistemologies, promoted the opening in which knowledge is also in the intuitive and volitive, rehabilitating flavor as a knowledge organ. The article explores this opening, reflecting on the epistemological implications of the study of flavor by Geography, considering it as sensation, feeling and knowledge.