Word: umami
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...explained that some scientists believe that there is a fifth taste called savory that is analogous to umami...
Katz said that this idea is particularly in vogue among Asian scientists who work in areas where umami is popular, like Japan...
Philosophers call it the “substratum,” and chefs call it “umami,” but the universal word for it is “subtlety.” It’s that Mona-Lisa-smile component that separates the merely good from the eternally memorable. Thousands of people have tried to describe it, but to little—if any—avail. And so the movie “The Burning Plain,” written and directed by the Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, is the latest work to remind...
...those who would rather eat their Chateaubriand than read about it. “Food is like artistic expression if you can find the right people to make it,” said executive editor Christopher Chang ’09. Chang added that he hopes to have Umami publish stories about culinary artists, such as one chef who crafted an exquisite kangaroo dish for him despite New York City’s endangered species regulations. “Some people say that kangaroo can be a bit gamey. But it was a very good cut,” recalled...
...course, such an event would have been incomplete without caviar. Umami Magazine’s favorite kind? Russian Sturgeon...