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Umami: A Universal Human Experience
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Designing Satisfaction through Umami for dietitians
Umami, appetite, and sodium reduction — a pilot workshop for dietitians and nutrition professionals A workshop for people who design… Read More
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Umami: A Universal Human Experience
Why Humans Seek Umami Umami is one of the five basic tastes, alongside sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, and sourness. Although the… Read More
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Lecture: Umami: Tasting the Invisible
Exploring the science, memory, culture, and human experience of taste An hour to sit back, listen, and see a familiar… Read More
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Workshops: The Five Doors of Umami
An Interactive Journey Through Taste, Memory, and Culture Umami is often described as the fifth taste. But it is also… Read More
USING UMAMI AS A LENS TO EXPLORE CULTURE AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE
UMAMI CROSSING
A cross-disciplinary series pairing umami with a different field — where they meet, both reveal what neither could show alone.
Umami x Language
Lecture — Letterenhuis, Antwerp, Oct. 2026
The Taste That Had No Word — What happens to a taste that no language has named?
Umami x History
Lecture — Netherlands, Oct. 2026
How far can a taste explain a history? Empires are explained by power, faith, and money. Rarely by appetite.
Umami x Art
Essay on this website— Nov. 2026
What can a painted table tell us about what Europe actually tasted?
AN INDEPENDENT CITIZEN-LED INITIATIVE
TASTE MEMORIES
Is there a taste you have never forgotten?
Taste Memories is an ongoing archive of personal food memories —gathered from people across cultures and generations.