Taste

I conducted an in-person interview that took place in the home of the interviewee in Phoenix, Arizona. The interview was conducted on October 21st and lasted about 2 hours. I will be referring to my interviewee as “Dona” in order to protect her identity and keep her completely anonymous. For my interview I decided to take careful notes and directly transcribe the responses during the interview. As the interview began I noticed that “Dona” was responding with generic answers and gave minimal…

the comments on Yelp because we want to have more customers. That is not a good idea for you to blame something to somebody. I am a picky eater, but I am willing to eat and try new types of food because I understand that people can have different tastes in the same one dish. You can like this food, but another person cannot eat it. I hope you can understand this situation. And I hope we can have more chances to serve different food for…

brain where they become experienced as smell. “This results in our ability to recognize around 10,000 different smells,” (Zou, Li, & Buck, 2005). How we taste: Taste buds are embedded in small lumps on the tongue, called papillae. When we eat, chemicals in food dissolve by the saliva and come into contact with the taste receptors within the taste buds. Then, adjacent neurons fire, and send nerve impulses to the brain’s parietal lobe…

Short Story Journal - “Choices” by Susan Kerslake Every professional and amateur writer tends to use imagery to paint a picture, to connect the five senses with the story. The majority of the time it is employ to evoke emotion, mood. Authors utilize imagery to get people involved in the story, and to acquire them to reflect. It makes the reader visualized a vivid picture of what the writer is trying to convey. The majority of the people tend to relate as well as to obtain familiarity with the…

People usually go to a restaurant not only for the convenience; the most important element is that the restaurant has delicious food, which they cannot make it at home; also other restaurant cannot make that taste. I mean it should be has some more special than other restaurant, such as, the service very well or the special environment as so on. For me, the most elements adjust a restaurant it should be they pick up the fresh ingredients used in the food. That is the crucial for customers; they…

Sushi Xuan is a Japanese restaurant that has a gentle setting, high-quality service and a startling assortment of food. Just a drive will bring you to the location 417 Tramway Blvd NE Ste 3, Albuquerque ("Sushi Xuan"). The hours are Mondays 4:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Tuesdays - Thursdays 11: 30 am - 9:30 pm, Fridays - Saturdays 11:30 am - 10:00 pm and Sundays are from 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm ("Sushi Xuan"). Everyone is welcome, ranging from a single person to a whole family. I will be…

Avery Weintraub I have always wondered why chile peppers are so spicy, and what best stops the burn. Interestingly enough, I found out that spicy is not actually a taste. I now know what makes food feel hot, and what stops the burn the best. Spiciness unlike sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and umami is not a taste. It actually comes from a molecule in the spicy food called capsaicin. What happens when one eats a pepper is that the capsaicin in the pepper touches receptors…

Wandering around New Orleans during a hot and bustling summer day was a distinctive experience. The midsummer trip was to celebrate my recent convocation from high school and it was rightly a sterling decision to spend it out of state. Hearing the thunderous music coming from the joints, as well as seeing people & street performers dancing on the avenues of French Quarter made me feel overjoyed about visiting the city. The potentialities of the city are endless! There is so much to see and…

There are between five and twenty-one senses depending on your definition of a sense. The five basic senses that everyone can generally agree upon are touch, smell, sight, and hearing. The sense I was assigned to research is taste. The sense organ associated with taste is the tongue. The Lingual Papillae, Sulcus Termanalis, Tonsils, Adenoids and Frenulum Linguae are the main parts of the tongue. The Superior Longitudinal, Inferior Longitudinal, Transverse and Vertical muscles are the Intrinsic…

not all shared a common way of experiencing the divine. Religions are formed through sensual engagement or stimulation to the five senses and is evident throughout every religious group whether primitive or “modern”. The ability to see, feel, touch, taste, and smell allows for the participant to feel something whether it be stimulation to just one sense or a combination of senses. These experiences help cultivate the belief of a religion by providing something that although may be intangible the…