One Small Mouthfull For Mankind

[scott123]

What would you consider to be the greatest food science discoveries of the last thirty years? Including your own, of course.

[Harold McGee]

To me the greatest development, or ongoing discovery, is the growing understanding of gastronomical pleasure: the nature of our senses of taste and smell, how those senses are integrated and interpreted by the brain, and the molecules in food that stimulate them. I think that this understanding will (among other consequences) help us perceive more and enjoy more in all foods.