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This Is Your Brain on Chemosensing

Recently reviewing some of the bits and pieces of text we cut because they were just a bit too detailed for what we were trying to do, I marveled again about all this neurological clockwork. There’s an awful lot more going on, but I think the capabilities, concerns and mechanisms of these brain regions I have plenty to say in the upcoming book, but

Wine waiter woman during blind tasting various alcoholic beverages. Sommelier exam to study different wine and beer.

Running Hot and Cold

It’s obvious that we human beings are all pretty different from one another—in appearance, experience, attitude, gender, and countless other attributes. Each of us has things that come effortlessly and others at which we struggle. It goes without saying that these differences affect our abilities as tasters. But how, exactly?