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Lessons on taste are also given in schools in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and some parts of Switzerland and France.
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
Taste is identity.
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
One way to approach the richness of plant flavors is to taste actively and with other people. Rather than simply recognizing a familiar flavor as what you expect, try to dissect that flavor into some of its component sensations, just as a musical chord can be broken down into its component notes. Run through a checklist of the possibilities, and as... See more
Harold McGee • On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Taste
Josh Bowen • 1 card
Taste is a word for how we measure culture and judge our relationship to it. If something suits our taste, we feel close to it and identify with it, as well as form relationships with other people based on it, the way customers commune over clothing labels (either loving or hating a particular brand). Intentionally bad taste might be just as compel
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
Get to know the grassy, peppery taste of a good EVOO (preferably organic) by swooshing it to the back of your throat—and taste it often!
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
Taste
Packy McCormick • 1 card
When I try a wine and I HATE it, but I can totally understand that it's good wine (no flaws, I can see why others might like it), I think that's what having "taste" is.
Apart from my subjective judgment, I can usefully apply the label "beautiful" to things I observe. To taste is to be a living being, but to have taste is to be human.
Apart from my subjective judgment, I can usefully apply the label "beautiful" to things I observe. To taste is to be a living being, but to have taste is to be human.
Overthink Podcast • Kant on the beautiful and taste: Critique of Judgment
Taste is not the same as correctness, though. To do something correctly is not necessarily to do it tastefully. For most things, correctness is good enough, so we skate by on that as the default. And there are many correct paths to take. You’ll be able to cook a yummy meal, enjoy the movie, build a useable product, don a shirt that fits. But taste ... See more