The four basic taste sensations sweet, salty, bitter, and sour are detected in separate regions of the tongue, mouth, and throat because the taste cells in each region are specific for certain flavour molecules (e.g., sweeteners; see below).
He has researched taste extensively with, among others, the Culinary Institute of America and Yale University, and has concluded that a combination of genetics and learned behaviour wires each of us to prefer certain flavours.
Her classes provide knowledge rather than tricks: the science of why you like certain flavours, why certain things work together.
Because they tend to have a more intimate relationship with their vines, small producers are more likely to get their wine to transmit that elusive quality that makes it special: a sense of place, a certain flavour or feeling that only comes from that specific site.
And ordinary people do get a certain flavour of benefit for providing that value.
You don't have to pretend you love a certain flavour of ice-cream or that you know everything about a movie you'd never heard of just to impress your date.
This morning we read "Harry Potter, Minus a Certain Flavour," Peter H. Gleick's July 10 Op-Ed article about adapting the language of Harry Potter from English to American.
Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also called monosodium L-glutamate, or sodium glutamate, white crystalline substance, a sodium salt of the amino acid glutamic acid, that is used to intensify the natural flavour of certain foods.
The products of the Maillard reaction lead to a darkening of colour, reduced solubility of proteins, development of bitter flavours, and reduced nutritional availability of certain amino acids such as lysine.
