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The Science of Cooking

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Food Isn't Just the Taste and Smell, It's the Experience

The experience of food isn't just the taste and smell, it's also our data base of past experience and expectation. Disgust has been part of the experience picking ut hs, no way of getting around that. And i suppose some smell we pre programmed, clearly to be repelled by certain smell, rotting rotting meat, or something like that. There are certain things that is clear that we don't enjoy, that sensation. But this wide range of other sensations that you've described, i suppose there's an element of of learning, as you said, of memory.

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