Taste

The five senses: taste, smell, touch, sound, and sight, are the things that make life worth living. They are what illuminate and diversify life. Sight is a truly remarkable sense, as is hearing. These two senses allow you to be aware of everything that is going on around you. The sense of touch allows you to be able to describe your surroundings. Words like soft, rough, smooth, hard, etc., would be nonexistent without the sense of touch. The sense of smell and taste go hand in hand, without…

the establishment or person very popular or have a bad reputation. However, there are a selected few who have become supertaster. So what makes a supertaster superior over a regular taster and how does the following sense of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch play a role for supertaster. Supertasters are identified by the number of fungiform papillae on their tongue. However, that just one of the key component of becoming one; A supertaster must have all of the five sense. The first sense…

the world through our senses. As infants we begin to learn to identify our mother through her smell and the sound of her voice. During our growth, our five senses continue to play a major role in our development. What we hear, smell, see, touch, and taste help us form schemas and assimilate new information. What organs are responsible for this? How do they work? Our eyes are made up of eleven essential parts which work to together and allow us to see the world. Behind the iris and pupil of the…

Larry’s French Market, “Doing Cajun Right” In Southeast Texas and Louisiana, Cajun food has an influence on almost every individual who tastes those blends of herbs, spices, and shellfish so associated with French culture. Although Groves, Texas might not seem like a town prideful of their Cajun cuisine, Larry’s French Market’s tastes like a meal straight out of the bayou. Larry’s French Market is well known by just about every local in a thirty mile radius. Larry’s reputation for easy…

of your daily life involves smell, it actually could be a terrible loss. Smell effects our emotions, our moods, enhances (or sometimes detracts from) our atmosphere, and most importantly, our sense of smell has a great deal to do with our sense of taste. For a small percentage of the population (about 1 in 20 Americans) which have some type of loss of smell, and about 1 in 100 that have a condition known as anosmia, they are living in an odorless world. Anosmia is defined as the total…

and error. To help minimize the risks of expanding their food horizons, humans used their senses, particularly that of taste. Tastebuds were not used to gauge the appeal of food but to guide humans to the foods of necessary nutritional value. Early hominids, like their ancestral apes, subsisted mainly on fruits and tender plants, and the receptors that recognize sour tastes were used to identify foods with…

(riboflavin), B5 (pantothenic acid), niacin, and folic acid and no cholesterol. Maple Syrup is brought into a series of "grades". In America the grades include; Light Amber, Medium Amber, Dark Amber, and B(commercial syrup). The grades do not matter on the taste but on the color of the syrup. Did you know that a gallon of maple syrup weighs 11 pounds. Why does the color differ? The color of the maple syrup differs because of the seasons. Fermentation is the chemical breakdown of a substance…

components that make up the natural ingredient found in a certain food. For example, vanilla is the most widespread flavored globally as well as being often used in baked goods, ice cream, and candy. It is composed of as many as two hundred fifty taste and aromas. But, most of this components are destroyed when exposed to high temperatures. Moreover, the demand of vanilla beans of over…

I mainly love this dish not because what it’s made of or how it tastes like, actually because the made it for me for the first time. The person that made every single bite of this meal is a new experience, a huge portion of love toward her and an enormous amount of respect. My mom made this dish my favorite. As I grew…

sensory observation. The descriptive essay employs the power in language and all the human senses to bring a subject to life for the reader. In Ann Hodgman “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch” describes her experience tasting dog food by elaborating on the taste, ingredient, and qualities as human food. Hodgman describes her personal experience tasting a few types of dog food. Out of curiosity, she tried everything from milk-bone treats to lumpy, bloody canned meat. She graphically tells of the…