“You don’t know what you’re missing till it’s gone” is a truism that certainly applies to taste. It took a pandemic for taste to get attention. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

The French lawyer and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin published his reflections on eating and drinking, “The Physiology of Taste,” just two months before he died in 1826. His most famous ...

There are recipes inside, but this is not a cookbook. It is an exploration of taste shared between a biophysicist and a chef of the fifth mode of taste, %E2%80 ...

THE “Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy” of the immortal Brillat-Savarin constitute a mouthwatering encyclopedia of the table: aphorisms (“Dessert without cheese is like a pretty girl with only ...