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Meet the World’s First Female Master Whisky Blender
Just 12 people in the world hold the title of master whisky blender, a role requiring extraordinary sense of smell and supreme distilling know-how. Although this list now includes women, Glasgow-based Rachel Barrie was the first.
Food Hacking: Electric Fork
Simon visits the inventor Hiromi Nakamura, who is researching the concept of "electric taste." Hiromi has developed a fork and cup that zap your taste buds with electrical currents to make food taste saltier. We wanted to experience the shock ourselves.
Three Thanksgiving Recipes from Watson, the Computer that Won Jeopardy
The best part about Thanksgiving is going home to all of the delicious food that's been cooked for you by a computer.
Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Chocolate Taste as Complex as Wine
Scientists at Belgium’s University of Leuven have developed a new hybrid yeast strain that can be used to ferment cocoa beans, giving them as varied a flavour profile as that of wine or coffee.
This 100-Year-Old Factory Makes the Saltiest Salt You’ll Ever Taste
Maldon salt, produced in a Victorian saltworks on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, is championed as one of the world’s finest tasting salts, thanks to its unique pyramid structure.
Apparently Slow Breathing Makes Food Taste Better
According to a new study from mechanical engineers at Penn State University, the way you breathe can impact your enjoyment of a meal.
This Odd-Looking VR Headset Can Change the Taste of Your Food
The idea is to change humans, not the food itself.
Multisensory Cinema Adds Smell and Touch to VR Worlds
In "The Feelies," artists and scientists virtually transport participants to New York and Jordan.
Scientists Have Discovered What Fat Tastes Like and It’s Gross
While fat is associated with texture and flavour release in foods, it’s not an instantly perceivable taste. A new study now claims that the tongue can identify fatty acids, and mark them as having a “bitter or irritating” taste.
Being a Hockey Loser Makes Your Food Taste Sour
Turns out that your sour grapes attitude as a sports fan loser actually effects your perception of taste.
The Beer Scientists
Professional sensory analysts undergo years of training that never really ends—and can cost the ability to just kick back and enjoy a brew.
Faking Taste With Electrical Shocks to the Tongue Is Our Dystopian Food Future
Taste+ promises to make something like Soylent as appetizing as foie gras without changing its nutritional content in the slightest.