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Umami (Taste)
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Flavour.
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Food -- Analysis.
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Food -- Composition.
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Food -- Biotechnology.
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Cooking.
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Descript |
1 online resource (281 pages). |
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online resource cr |
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The hardest foodstuff in the world. |
Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: How it all began; What exactly is taste, and why is it important?; The basic tastes: From seven to four to five and possibly many more; Why do we need to be able to taste our food?; There is more to it: Sensory science, taste, smell, aroma, flavor, mouthfeel, texture, and chemesthesis; Is there a taste map of the tongue?; Why are some foods more palatable than others?; A few words about proteins, amino acids, nucleotides, nucleic acids, and enzymes; Glutamic acid, glutamate, and the glutamate ion; Glutamic acid and glutamate in our food. |
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How does glutamate taste, and how little is required for us to taste it?The first four: Sour, sweet, salty, and bitter; The physiology and biochemistry of taste; The interplay between sweet and bitter; Taste receptors: This is how they work; When words fail us: Descriptions of tastes; The fifth taste: What is umami?; Science, soup, and the search for the fifth taste; Glutamic acid and glutamate; What is the meaning of the word umami?; From laboratory to mass production; How MSG is made; A little letter with a huge impact: The 'Chinese restaurant syndrome' |
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The Japanese discover other umami substancesIt all starts with mother's milk; Umami as a global presence; Umami has won acceptance as a distinct taste; And umami is still controversial ... ; 1 + 1 = 8: Gustatory synergy; Amazing interplay: Basal and synergistic umami; Detecting umami synergy on the tongue and in the brain; Japanese dashi: The textbook example of umami synergy; The art of making Japanese dashi; Nordic dashi ; Dashi closer to home-a Japanese soup with a Scandinavian twist; Seaweeds enhance the umami in fish; How to make smoked shrimp heads. |
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Recipe: Potato water dashi with smoked shrimp headsMany substances interact synergistically with umami; A breakthrough discovery of yet another synergistic substance; The interplay between glutamate and the four classic tastes; A simple taste test: Umami vs. salt; Recipe: Monkfish liver au gratin with crabmeat and vegetables; Umami-rich 'foie gras from the sea'; Food pairing and umami; Creating tastes synthetically; Umami: Either as little or as much as you like; Umami from the oceans: Seaweeds, fish, and shellfish; Seaweeds and konbu: The mother lode of umami; A world of konbu in Japan. |
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Fresh fish and shellfishCooked fish and shellfish dishes and soups; Recipe: Pearled spelt, beets, and lobster; Umami and the art of killing a fish; A traditional clambake: New England method, Danish ingredients; Recipe: Crab soup; Recipe: Clambake in a pot; Everyday umami in ancient Greece and Rome; Fish sauces and fish pastes; Recipe: Patina de pisciculis; Modern garum; Recipe: Garum; Recipe: Quick-and-easy garum; Recipe: Smoked quick-and-easy garum; Shellfish paste; Oyster sauce; Sushi and fermented fish; Katsuobushi; Catching katsuo to optimize umami; Niboshi. |
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Alt author |
Styrbaek, Klavs.
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Johansen, Mariela.
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Mouritsen, Jonas Drotner.
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ISBN |
9780231537582 (electronic bk.) |
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0231537581 (electronic bk.) |
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