Taste

Taste

Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation is one of the five traditional senses. Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with receptors of taste buds.

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Famous quotes containing the word taste:

    “For months it hasn’t known the taste of steel
    Washed down with rusty water in a tin.
    But standing outdoors hungry, in the cold,
    Except in towns at night, is not a sin.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Intelligence ... is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.”
    —Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)