taste memory
Palate's time travel
Taste memory is the ability to recall flavors and their associated sensations from past experience.
Chefs and sommeliers cultivate taste memory to identify ingredients and detect subtle notes in wine.
The term also describes how a particular taste can trigger vivid recollection of the circumstances where you first encountered it: The madeleine's taste memory transported him to his aunt's kitchen.
- flavorCharacteristic taste quality
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- tongueOral muscle for taste
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- aromaPleasant distinctive smell
sensation · recall · savory · sweetness · grandmother · home cooking · kitchen · comfort food · bite · familiar · longing · palate · madeleine · homesick · recipe · comfort · scent · evocative
- taste and smellsmell, flavor, gustation, olfaction, sweet
- tastebitter, salty, sour, sweet, spicy
- sensory testingsensory thresholds, flavor profiles, mouthfeel, rating scale, sweetness
- sensory memory
taste memoryvisual memory
Recollection of seen things
auditory memory · muscle memory · verbal memory · spatial memory · smell memory
taste, memory, tastes, tasted, tasting, tasteful, tasteless, tastefully, tastelessly