Taste Perception Quotes

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Things taste less salty when they're cool.

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not.

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

People under-salt their food, and they think it's bland, but salt brings out flavor.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.