If you don’t love ice cream, you are in the minority. The average American eats about 22 pounds, or 4.5 gallons, of ice cream a year. Some of you are probably thinking “Oh, I eat way more than that!” ...

Tasting a bite of rich chocolate souffle or a savory piece of beef tenderloin can send us into a state of pure bliss, but what is it about a food’s flavor that makes us so giddy when we eat it? The ...

Taste is one of the canonical five human senses, but it is also probably the least well understood. From the taste buds on the tongue to the appreciation of flavour in the brain, there are plenty of ...

This question, so deceptively simple, is explored to great and fascinating lengths in Tom Vanderbilt’s new book “You May Also Like: Taste in an Endless Age of Choice” (Knopf). “I was simply feeling ...