taste
The Man Who Tastes Sounds
Things get difficult when you're a synaesthete and the name of a friend's wife tastes like sick.
How to Avoid Sounding Like an Idiot at the Cheese Counter
People are often worried about sounding like plebians at the cheese counter, but don't worry and don't clam up. You can tell me that the wheel of Pierre Robert tastes like butter, and I will understand.
Can Music Change Your Sense of Taste?
New research suggests that there's a connection between how things taste and what we're listening to when we eat them.
We Asked a Taste Expert Why Some Foods Make People Gag
Can you inherit taste preferences from your parents? Why do siblings sometimes grow up with wildly different feelings toward certain foods? We called up Dr. John Prescott, a specialist in the human perception of taste and smell, to find out.
Science Says Weed Makes Food Taste and Smell Better
Anyone who's ever smoked a joint knows that weed can make you ravenously hungry. But why? According to recent research, THC can make your brain smell and taste food far more acutely while high—meaning there's a scientific basis for the munchies.
The Most Valiant Attempts to Program Our Five Senses Into Robots
Because the only thing better than stopping to smell the roses is letting a machine do it for you.
These Burgers Taste Like Human
It's often said that cannibalism is the last taboo. Maybe that's why I struggled so much eating a "human" burger—a mix of different meats carefully combined to apparently be as close to the taste of long pig as possible.
I Drank Colors at a Synesthesia Happy Hour
Exploring a neurological condition through sense-stimulating cocktails.
Sniff at Your Own Risk: Beers That Reek
Some craft brews treat you kindly, like a overeager gentleman on a first date. But other beers put some stank on the nose and throw your senses into an orgy of odors. These are just some those beers, and they smell to high heaven.
This Cheese Gave Me a Nosebleed
For those with a true cheese addiction, there can be no messing around—only the strongest, most sinus-searingly potent kind will do.
Smell Is a Challenge for Professional Chefs
As a cook, smell is quite problematic, because we spend most of our time thinking about flavor—not smell—combinations. But flavor is actually inseparable from smell, a motion that happens at the same time while we taste our food that we need to pay...
What noma Taught Me About the Perception of Sweetness
We all know that taste is subjective. But, as I discovered working at Nordic Food Lab and being so close to noma and René "sugar is evil" Redzepi, it's our perception of sweetness that varies the most.