Umami: The Comfort Taste

Photo of sushi on a Carnival cruise ship © Howard Dratch, 2007.


This is a fascinating foray into the land of taste and food and oriental influence. The video from the Wall Street Journal (who has recently allowed more to enter the financial world. Financiers do, however, like to eat and are therefore a ripe market for a new taste, "the fifth taste". One description mentioned the taste, or more importantly, the sense of chicken soup. Another makes dishes looking for non-MSG umami with Chinese black mushrooms, one my favorite things to add to soups and dishes. An integral part of Chinese cooking, they are also shitaki mushrooms which have been dried. I like both and both probably impart the taste of umami.

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