The phrase "and the taste for it" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing preferences or inclinations towards something, often in the context of food, art, or experiences.
Example: "She developed a love for gourmet cuisine, and the taste for it only grew stronger with each new dish she tried."
Alternatives: "and the preference for it" or "and the liking for it".
He was no angel on a pedestal, Jimmy knew that, and drinking — the taste for it — ran in his blood, sure it did, but in high school it had been beer only, and never to excess.
Being on the radio made him a local celebrity, and he never lost the taste for it.
"The Manchurian Candidate" is a very ripe banana, and, for those who have the taste for it, delectable.
Though Everton and Liverpool still didn't have the taste for it initially, the plan worked.
But while Kurt Cobain's demise marked the end of the grunge era -- and with it, the taste for its less demonstrative sibling, indie rock -- Pavement continued to make records that captured the nuances of the irony-addled, a generation that felt burdened by the aimlessness of its post-cold-war cultural inheritance.
I attended a university in the D.R. for several months in the mid-1980's and developed a strong taste for it, for its aged rums, its rice and beans (which I ate for lunch almost every day for six months) and the magical merengue of Juan Luis Guerra.
"It was just that the (Auckland Blues) put him at centre in the last year and he got a taste for it then.
"We went to an international trade show in the UK in 2009 and got picked up by distributors in the US — that gave us a real taste for it and the following year we went to more shows and also went on a UKTI trade mission to Canada, picking up more business," she says.
Consumers in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates also have a growing taste for it (though across the region, alcoholic beer still outsells it).Delster, brewed by an Iranian company, Behnoush, turned alcohol-free in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
"The Government provided peanut butter to the G.I.'s, they came home with a taste for it and started the baby boom," he said.
