
Food Science Special: Million-Layer Puff Pastry and More!
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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Ariel Welcome to Milk Street and Fermentation Boxes
Ariel: flavor isn't just physical it's emotional so could you talk about that? Ariel: Most of flavor is actually smell and smells a chemical sense. We have a certain amount of hardwired responses to those, such as sweet sour salty bitter and umami. A natural attraction to sweetness and positive feelings about it and a natural aversion to bitterness since that's often a signal for the presence of poisons with smells most of it is kind of a blank slate.
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