Three: you are Darina Allen, and live and teach cookery on an organic farm where a team of gardeners ensure a constant supply of gorgeously fresh and characterful leaves which all taste precisely of themselves; some spicy, some earthy, some delicate.
Suddenly I became convinced, without ever having sampled a mixture of grape Kool-Aid and battery acid, that it would taste precisely like the fluid now in my mouth.
In the end, the proportion of appellations in our top 10 mirrored the tasting precisely, with seven Pouilly-Fumés and one each from Menetou-Salon, Reuilly and Quincy.
Rather than looking for something that tastes precisely like foods higher in sugar or salt, industry researchers are instead aiming to concoct healthier combinations that are just as tasty.
What then to make of the Bazooka, a pink infusion of bubble gum and vodka, tempered with a house sour mix, that tastes precisely like a piece of Bubblicious gum, powdery residue and all?
This is one of those dishes that, on the one hand, tastes precisely of its ingredients: onions, anchovies, wheat and olive oil.
And taste is precisely what Britain should focus on in its fight against child obesity.
The fact is, the single most outrageous quality with which Harris has endowed his charismatic mass murderer — even more implausible than Lecter's prodigious intelligence and exquisitely refined taste — is precisely the doctor's strong avenging-angel impulse, which since "The Silence of the Lambs" has sometimes manifested itself as a grisly kind of gallantry.
Lincoln could taste just about any whiskey and identify its flaws, strengths and precisely how to improve it.
Even chefs who don't use glutamate crystals use soy sauce in most recipes, and soy sauce tastes good precisely because it's chock full of glutamates.
And some of it is just a bit silly: what appear to be tiny chicken croquettes burst robust but tepid stock into your gob, like a Brit xiao long bao, and come skewered with a dot of greyish "stuffing" that might be something brilliantly molecular created with maltodextrin and gellan gum, but that tastes quite precisely of Paxo.
