“You can almost smell the smoky and delicious aroma of your steak grilling to perfection” – says the radio ad for your local restaurant. But can you really ‘almost smell’ the aroma when you hear the ad? If so, how could you quantify that? A team of investigators at Virginia Tech have investigated just such […]
Tag: tastes
Tastes Like Chicken, recalled
Investigator Sally Shelton sends this observation that appeared on a paleontologists discussion listserv: I’m often amazed that people on this list seem unaware of some of the classic literature… Culinary phylogenetics was addressed in an issue of AIR way back in 1998. You can find a pdf here. The discussant refers to Joe Staton‘s study […]