ALL MANNERS OF FOOD

 Hello.This is my first post in this blog.

 Today, I'd like to introduce the food-related book that I'm reading now. It is "ALL MANNERS OF FOOD" by Stephen Mennell. Now, I've just read the introduction of this book. In the introduction, it is mainly written about taste. So, I'll tell you some interesting parts of the introduction.
  It is said that people have 4 basic tastes innately; sweet, sour, salty and bitter. When people encounter unfamiliar flavor, what they experience is not really taste, but a sort of "pre-taste". It's not really taste until they have learned how to interpret it. The good example is coffee. Many people must think that coffee is one of the great marvellous flavous. But, it must be also true that anyone drinking coffee for the first time would deny it, because it is very bitter. This is "pre-taste". However, by the time you have drunk a few thousand cups of it, you feel it delicious and cannot live without it. And it is real taste.
 I think that it is very interesting, because I had the same experience about coffee. At first, I couldn't drink it, but when I was a high school student and had to study hard for university's entrance exam, I drunk it many times to wake up. Now, I think that coffee's taste is very good.

 Like this, I will sometimes introduce some interesting parts of this book.

Thank you for your reading.