What Is a Taste?

Garry beecham is the former director of the monel chemical senses centre. He's interested in the big four tastes, but also how each taste helped our ancestors answer what should i put in my mouth? For thousands of years, it was a pretty exclusive club. Soap, the big fork, sweet, salty, bitter and sour. Those were the ideas that went back thousands of years. O the chinese, the indians, the greeks, many, many societies all through the world name those four as the basic part of taste.