The Four Tastes of Pesach?

The purpose of this email is to bring some sympathy and some taste to the Shabbat table. Please print and share...
Wishing Devorah bat Chava and Devorah bas Tikva a continued and complete recovery.
Do you know how many days until Passover?

Quick, can you name the five tastes?

I'm not asking about music, art, literature etc. I'm referring gustatory. (That's food-taste in Anglo-Saxon.)

Answer: Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Sour, Umami

Now, you'd think that with so much daily experience with taste, we'd all understand it quite well.

It turns out that there's a lot of confusion around it. Even coming up with the above list of 5 has many people stumped.

Here's another one: many people were taught for many years that each of the five tastes are limited to specific parts of the tongue:


But is it true?

Try putting something bitter on the front of your tongue or something sweet on the back - can you taste it as bitter or sweet?




What about water? Does it have its own taste, as some people claim?

Yesterday, I was discussing the five tastes with a group of young people and we decided that four of the five are represented at the Pesach Seder. 

Question for your table - which four? Which one is missing and why?

The answer, we think, says something important about Pesach.

 

Shabbat Shalom

PS - There may not be an email next week. If not, chag sameach!
PPS - It isn't too late to get your shmurah matzah.
PPPS - As I mentioned last week, if you want my 2021 Pesach Seder gimmicks-gadgets-and-gifts list, send me an email.

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