摘要
This chapter argues that the familiar map of taste-receptor areas on the tongue given in various educational books is false, and explains errors concerning the theory of four tastes: salty, sweet, acid, and bitter. Human beings perceive various tastes differently. We only have to put a few drops of sapid solution on different parts of the tongue to see that the taste areas changes from person to person. When a fairly large number of people were invited to stick their tongues in a glass of sweetened water, only 40 percent of them sensed a sweet taste in the tip of the tongue. The chapter concludes that there needs to be a new vocabulary of taste that goes beyond the worn-out mantra “salty, sweet, sour, bitter,” which for many years now has been refuted both by personal experience and by sensory physiology.
摘要译文
本章认为，各种教育书籍中舌头上闻名的味道接受区域的熟悉的地图是假的，并解释了有关四口味的理论的错误：咸，甜，酸和苦味。人类感知各种口味。我们只需要在舌头的不同部位上施加几滴Sapid解决方案，以了解味道区域对人的变化。当邀请了一个相当大的人在一杯甜水中粘在甜水中时，只有40％感觉到舌尖中的甜味。章节得出结论，需要一种新的味道词汇，超出了磨损的口头禅“咸，甜，酸，苦涩”，这已经多年来一直被个人经验和感官生理学驳斥。
Three Taste. Note-by-Note Cooking: The Future of Food[M].US: Oxford, 2014