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 standards of His Majesty’s taste made all those ladies who aspired to his favour, and who were near the Statutable size, strain and swell themselves, like the frogs in the fable, to rival and bulk and dignity of the ox. Some succeeded, and others burst.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

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