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:

    “A taste for drink, combined with gout,
    Had doubled him up forever.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

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

    “What does the truth matter? Haven’t we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!”
    —Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)