Umami

When you were a child you may have learned in school, as I did, of the four basic tastes: Sweetness, sourness, bitterness, saltiness. What I wasn’t taught (damn you Mrs Hamilton!) was that there is an elusive fifth taste: Umami. A word loaned from the Japanese language – Professor Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo University first … Read more Umami: Flavour hunting with Noctua