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:

    “The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “Comforted
    a solace of ripe plums
    seeming to fill the air
    They taste good to her”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, “immortal longings.””
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)