Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

“It pulls a “gape”: mouth opened wide, tongue stuck out to eject the offending food. (Humans do this too. The scientific term here is…

— Mary Roach

I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I…

— Elinor Wylie

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite…

— Charles Darwin

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

— Marian Keyes

We have certain demons who are motivated by the smell of food. They tend to get rather violent whenever they smell it. I personally…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Taste, like smell, is a doorman for the digestive tract, a chemical scan for possibly dangerous (bitter, sour) elements and desirable (salty, sweet) nutrients.”

— Mary Roach

It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in…

— Mary Roach

“Flavor is a combination of taste (sensory input from the surface of the tongue) and smell, but mostly it’s the latter. Humans perceive five…

— Mary Roach

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the…

— Jo Nesbo

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

— Charles Lamb