The phrase "a certain taste for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's preference or inclination towards something, often in a more refined or specific context.
Example: "She has a certain taste for classical music that sets her apart from her peers."
Alternatives: "a particular fondness for" or "an affinity for".
Refreshingly, the commissioner appears not to care all that much.Indeed, he has a certain taste for intellectual controversy.
Right from the beginning, it would appear, people living in Europe had a certain taste for fancy dress.
And here his girlfriend, the journalist Valérie Trierweiler, interjected, with a small sigh, "And since then he has kept a certain taste for hamburgers".
The reality is that we have a certain taste for risk taking and we have been historically well rewarded for doing this.
October 28 2015 Because of its concern with balance and color, brushstroke and light, nineteenth-century art satisfies a certain taste for quality, opulence, and craft — and it never goes out of style.
In the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) is isaidid that - by necessity rather than desire - French soldiers developed a certain taste for cheval.
Significant discrepancies can be observed between these different sources, leading to a certain taste of incertitude.
It was a very positive experience for me, leaving a certain "taste on my tongue" for giving away freely.
Four basic tastes in Figure 1 are the baseline for dimensions in accordance with "imputed characteristic to a certain taste [ 5, 6]." Here, the closer the concept of a particular adjective is to a traditional taste, the closer that concept gets to the baseline.
All the methods used showed a similar pattern of results; after eating a preload with a certain taste, the liking and wanting of snacks with a similar taste were less than for snacks with a dissimilar taste.
