Quotes About Taste

Morality is like taste in many ways—an analogy made long ago by Hume and Mencius.

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.

No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?

I'm fairly tired of hipsters. They have terrible taste in music. These kids come in and say, 'You don't have anything that was released this year?' That makes me crazy. We don't need anything from this year! (Bob Diener, owner of Record Swap in Champaign, IL)

It's like a blueberry White Russian,' John said, now on his third spoonful. 'It tastes exactly the same,' Mike said, his teeth already bright blue. 'No, no, it tastes better,' John said. 'I feel like it's making me stronger.

he was a child of eight, in the aftermath of his first kill. The first taste of blood was always the sharpest, but, for him, the blood didn't matter as much as it did

Johnson ambled over. "Took you sweet time getting here, Malone." "kiss mine, Johnson." The other detective grinned. "No thanks, I've got standards." Quentin hooted at that. The other detective had notoriously bad taste in women.

If you were a RiverClan cat, you wouldn't mind getting your paws wet!" "And I wouldn't mind catching a frog or a toad to eat," mewed Littlecloud. When the other cats glanced at him in surprise, he added defensively, "They don't taste that bad!

The danger of growing up surrounded by these endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them, but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

In the West the word "delicious" is likely to conjure up something laced with sugar, fat and salt, whereas in Japan it signifies a flavour found in mushrooms, grilled fish and light broths.

Anything can start to taste good if you have enough positive memories of being fed it by a parent.

There's a joke about a man who tested his blade using his tongue: sharp blades taste like metal; really sharp blades taste like blood.

The concept of "delicious" was born in Japan in 1908 when a chemist called Ikeda discovered a "fifth taste" called umami that was neither bitter nor salty nor sweet nor sour but something more wonderful and compelling than any of these.

When children are exposed through 'sensory education' to a wider range of flavours they start to love complexity and be bored by simplicity.

Our sense of taste is something that anchors us to the person we have always known ourselves to be.

We are all born with echoes of our mother's diet, which means that no one is a totally blank slate when it comes to flavour.

Flavours - these memories generated backwards through our nose - are all learned.

Already, by thirteen weeks, the taste buds are mature. A thirteen-week-old foetus weighs maybe an ounce, with no fat under the skin, no air in the lungs. Yet already they can not only swallow but taste, and these sips of fluid leave memories.

It is curious that we talk so little about the flavour of formula, given that it is the main food many babies taste for that crucial first year.

Registering different flavours is one of the main ways that our bodies interact with the world around us. Amazingly enough, the human olfactory bulb is the only part of the central nervous system that is directly exposed to our environment, through the nasal cavity. Our other senses - sight, sound and touch - need to travel on a complicated journey via nerves along the spinal cord up to the brain. Smell and flavour, by contrast, surge direct from plate to nose.

What you taste as a child is still there in your adult brain, even if you haven't thought of it for years.