flavour
Listening to This Man’s Stories Could Make Chocolate Taste Even Better
An experiment at the University of the West of England wires people to brain-scanners to find out whether listening to a story changes perception of flavour.
Faking Taste With Electrical Shocks to the Tongue Is Our Dystopian Food Future
Taste+ promises to make something like Soylent as appetizing as foie gras without changing its nutritional content in the slightest.
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.
We Should Be Eating Seaweed by the Bucketload
So nutrient-dense and sustainable it's almost silly, it's high time we started looking to seaweed as a regular food source beyond spirulina pills and the stuff found in store-bought miso soups.
The Mick Jagger of Whisky Wants You to Drink It Your Way
Opinions on whisky are like assholes—everyone has one. Next time a barmen gives you the stink eye for adding water (or even Coca-Cola) to your single malt, though, tell them that one of Scotland's top distillers says you should drink it just how you...
Irn-Bru Made Me Who I Am
I'm Scottish. Therefore, Irn-Bru isn't just a teeth-eroding fizzy drink to me. It's part of the tapestry of my existence, the foundation of most of my teenage memories.