Everything about this savory flavor is mysterious, from how it tastes to why it took so long to get recognized as the fifth taste. What is it, and how does it make food taste delicious?
The rich savory flavor of miso soup is one way to experience umami, the fifth major taste.
Then again, I get why umami evades description. Almost everything about it is mysterious and complex — from how we perceive its taste, to its history and its fight for legitimacy. This complexity of umami's might also explain why it wasn't isolated and recognized as a taste until relatively recently in Western culture.It was a Japanese man, inspired by his wife's rich kelp broth, who isolated the chemical compound glutamate from seaweed in 1908. Chemist Kikunae Ikeda, identified it as the source of this peculiar savory taste, and called it"umami."
Hayes says many people still don't realize that, despite its borrowed Japanese name, umami exists in all cuisines.
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