Word: taster
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...protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with the muse of science, and needs a bit of rejuvenation along more humane lines. Harvard's great lack today is an official taster...
...preachers tell us, can claim too much. A reasonable person cannot expect the food mentors to send Whitings a psychologist to tell when the cows feel contented, or when the outlook for the future sours up. Nobody knows what part of the cud is Cream. But an official taster, specifically selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables, but would add to the kitchen that human element which is so essential a part of any large food purveying establishment. It is just this touch...
...office of taster is venerable in history and cannot be despised by the strutting young scientificos of the present day and age. In ancient states a taster was more valued than a chief-of-staff. Tacitus, indeed, tells of empire-shaking deeds when the taster succumbed to the lure of Tammany tactics, and Montaigne accounts it the greatest of compliments that Henry IV of France dispensed with his taster when visiting at the essayist's chateau. But Montaigne was a humanist, and had not reduced his kitchen to a system of boilers, pulleys, chafing dishes and steam baths...
...prudent Oriental, Feisal habitually employed a Court Taster except when in England, lest an enemy poison him. The royal corpse was not cold before some of the more excitable members of his staff demanded an autopsy to determine whether or not their sovereign's sudden death was due to foul play. Promptly surgeons at the University of Berne set their minds at rest. They found that King Feisal, "The Sword Flashing Down at the Stroke," had succumbed to an advanced stage of arteriosclerosis of the aorta and coronary arteries. The King's cardiac condition had not been improved...
...from the mental (lawyers, writers, singers, salesmen), through the semi-manual (osteopaths, masseurs, typists), to the manual (farmers, carpenters, mechanics). The blind are peculiarly deft at assembling parts. A profession whose unexpected obviousness makes it surprising is Miss Emma Most's of San Francisco. She is a coffee-taster...