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:

    “Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.”
    —Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)

    “What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
    What wheels, racks, fires? What flaying, boiling
    In leads or oils? What old or newer torture
    Must I receive, whose every word deserves
    To taste of thy most worst?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)