Taste opportunities

Smeaton was a born mechanic and incessant experimeiitor, but a man of simple tastes and wants. He limited his professional engagements in order to devote a certain portion of his time to scientific investigations. One of Smeaton s rules was not to trust deductions drawn from theory when there was an opportunity for actual experiment. In 1771 Smeaton founded a club for engineers, which later came to be call the Smeatonian Society. ... 

The cocktail has a classic, if quiet taste, with a too-many-cooks quality to the presentation. I would lose the pie and the pond scum. The appearance of a drink s liquid is the sum total of its elegance in a glass, and you want to see it. The French martini is Chanel pink— don t squander opportunities like that. 

Soft drinks fonnulators today have a greater choice of bulk and intense sweeteners than ever before. Optimisation of die taste profile of drinks containing sweeteners has improved significantly over the last 20 years. This may limit the opportunities for some of the newer sweeteners, as additional taste improvement will be incremental, compared with the substantial taste improvements seen in the early 1980s, when several new sweeteners were approved. 

Which brought Trix back to what mattered most. And she saw a perfect opportunity to throw in a pinch of something that might make the conversation more to her taste. Sounds like the sort of answer the Doctor might come up with. ... 

Amino acids and related compounds, as well as simple aromatic compounds, are very well suited for developing further models, as in these chemical classes sweet and bitter taste and also sweet/ bitter taste occur. Thus we have the opportunity of dealing with the taste qualities sweet and bitter uniformly. 

Lack of motivation will limit you to the few observations that life crises force on you. Even more, the attitude that comes from lack of motivation will limit you. We have an old saying he who tastes knows. It s only true in the extreme, where the taste is so strong you are forced to pay attention and learn something about the world or yourself. More accurately he who tastes has an opportunity to know. Whether he uses that opportunity is a separate question. 

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