Such a meal also should balance tastes savory, a little sour or bitter maybe, perhaps some sweet and salt and textures, from chewy to succulent to crisp.

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Mussels, he said, "should taste exactly of themselves" which is to say sweet, meaty and reminiscent of salt water.

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It can be described as a shortcut to umami, the so-called fifth flavor (in addition to sweet, sour, bitter and salt), which in turn is often described as savory or meaty.

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The list has something for everyone, with experimental favourites like the Smokey Robinson -- a savoury-sweet mixture of blanco tequila, smoked salt, honey and scotch with fresh celery and lime juice --and perfected classics like the whiskey ginger, made with house-made ginger soda for a fresh take on an old faithful.

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Fully titled "There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears, " the track uses the classic disc (also 1928) by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke and Bing Crosby as a starting point, with an unmistakably similar two-beat underpinning, a slow grind that makes it impossible to pin it down either rhythmically or chronologically.

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Their research was complicated by the fact that of the five primary taste sensations salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami the taste of salt is the least understood.

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Initially, it is a soft, foul-smelling matter that floats on the ocean but through exposure to the sun and the salt water over years it turns into a smooth lump of compact rock which feels waxy and has a sweet smell.

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