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  • Ep 1: The Case for Taste
    2022/05/04
    Adam Liaw cracks the code of taste in cooking. He is joined by superstar chef, author and restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi who explains how taste guides our hand in the kitchen even when we aren’t even thinking about it.
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    33 分
  • Ep 2: Sweet
    2022/05/04
    Our taste for sweetness guided our evolutionary forebears to energy-rich fruit but its effect on civilisation has been anything but sweet. Facilitating the enslavement of millions and bringing forth the Industrial Revolution.
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    40 分
  • Ep 3: Bitter
    2022/05/04
    Bitterness helps us avoid toxic foods. Yet in the case of chocolate, coffee, tea and pepper - many of our favourite foods are bitter. Our quest for these foods directly resulted in globalisation and even modern democracy.
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    45 分
  • Ep 4: Salty
    2022/05/04
    All animals need salt to survive and humans are no different. But salt also gave us the ability to preserve food as well as shifting human society from hunting and gathering to agricultural trade. From the Celts and Romans to Ancient China, salt underpinned the global economy for thousands of years.
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    39 分
  • Ep 5: Sour
    2022/05/04
    Humans are one of just a handful of animals unable to produce the Vitamin C necessary for our own survival. Our taste for sourness has guided us to vitamins as well as fermented foods that are vital to the health of our microbiome. Perhaps the key to understanding our own humanity.
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    37 分
  • Ep 6: Umami
    2022/05/04
    Savoury umami led humanity to cooking, with cooked foods providing greater bioavailability of nutrients for human development. But our newest taste is also our most misunderstood – MSG is the pure taste of umami and occurs natural in mother’s milk, so why is so much of the world convinced it’s harmful?
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    43 分
  • Ep 7: The Future of Taste
    2022/05/04

    With our understanding of taste still relatively new, are there other tastes we haven’t identified yet? In this final episode Adam shows how our sense of taste can guide us to better cooking, better health and a healthier planet. We take a peek at what the future of taste may hold.

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    44 分