A Sensory Approach to Barbecue Spicing
Since I’m an experimental kind of guy who’s fascinated by the sensory effects of spices, I’ve been making my own “master” spice mix for about forty years now.
Since I’m an experimental kind of guy who’s fascinated by the sensory effects of spices, I’ve been making my own “master” spice mix for about forty years now.
Our trigeminal system consists of multiple coordinated sensory inputs based on more than a dozen receptor types. As I often do to get a grip on a subject, I found it helpful to diagram various parts of it. As the book was getting longer and longer, we decided we could do without the diagram, so I’m presenting it here. It’s a representation of the major touch sensing systems we use for mouthfeel/trigeminal sensations.