Sublime

Industrial and processed meats and cheeses: Grain-fed red meat, feedlot chicken, processed cheeses.

A longtime supervisor of shades used Crystal Light, Everclear, skinned fruit, and an ordinary office paper shredder to produce a libation she called Last Mango in Paris.

kippers or bacon or something even more hideous and unhoneyed he’s supposed

All forms of refined, processed carbohydrates:

He sees Mark’s bag of fried flowers on the tip-pocked table. Funny thing about those flowers. Who’d voluntarily cook and eat a rose? It’s like planting and watering a breadstick. It’s perverse, and even sort of obscene, eating what’s clearly put on earth to be extra-gastric. Didn’t taste all that hot, either. And there’s still a piece stuck with th

Taste is identity.

Capsaicin is the ingredient found in hot chili peppers that makes you run for a cold drink.

A cook might ask for an all-day, a total number of a particular item both ordered and fired, with temperatures, meaning degrees of doneness.

we learn “flavor objects”—the “perceptual gestalt” of touch, taste, and smell in everything we eat.