bruschetta – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg bruschetta – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Peach Salsa Bruschetta with Melted Brie http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/brie-and-peach-salsa-bruschetta/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/brie-and-peach-salsa-bruschetta/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:00:07 +0000 http://www.ingoodtastemag.com/?p=200 Some of the best things in life come in pairs. Flavors, for me, are no exception. Taste buds on the human tongue can detect four flavors: sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Even though the average person has 10,000 taste buds (a number that is said to decrease as we age) they make only four distinctions between the types of food we eat. Taste buds aren’t all that smart, either. Sometimes it is easy to trick them. According to Dr. Gary K. Beauchamp, Director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, you can tease your taste buds by drinking a cold brew. He said that one of beer’s primary components (alcohol) stimulates all of the sensory systems, which include taste and smell. “It stimulates taste, being a little bit bitter itself. It stimulates olfaction, having a sort of sweet odor. Is that why we like foods that are sweet + sour, sweet + salty or even sweet + bitter? From savory meals with sweet finish like sweet & sour chicken to classic chocolate cake with rich, sea-salted caramel filling most of us are no stranger to these combinations. Pairing sweet with savory is a nice way to keep your palate […]

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