food trends, food fads slow food wonder berries, food that delay aging, prevent coronary disease revitalise skin......etcetc Now comes Umami or Taste No 5. If you believe the hype it's like the discovery of a new primary colour or new sense to rival touch, smell and the rest. Well with taste you have sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Apparently Umami which comes to Ireland for the 1st time, available as a paste in tubes defies all these and offers a taste sensation completely new. Like a mixture of ... well it's all a matter of taste. I couldn't possibly comment myself but according to the Irish Times Kierab Glennon (Guilbauds) and Jonathan MacIver (Gordon Ramseys Powerscourt) have already stated rather sniffily that they wont be using it. But we'll make sure to order some books on Umami and for now we'll have to make do with The sense of taste. Dear knows what the great Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of taste would have made of it all
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
no accounting for paste
food trends, food fads slow food wonder berries, food that delay aging, prevent coronary disease revitalise skin......etcetc Now comes Umami or Taste No 5. If you believe the hype it's like the discovery of a new primary colour or new sense to rival touch, smell and the rest. Well with taste you have sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Apparently Umami which comes to Ireland for the 1st time, available as a paste in tubes defies all these and offers a taste sensation completely new. Like a mixture of ... well it's all a matter of taste. I couldn't possibly comment myself but according to the Irish Times Kierab Glennon (Guilbauds) and Jonathan MacIver (Gordon Ramseys Powerscourt) have already stated rather sniffily that they wont be using it. But we'll make sure to order some books on Umami and for now we'll have to make do with The sense of taste. Dear knows what the great Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of taste would have made of it all
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