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====Architectures for tastes==== | ====Architectures for tastes==== | ||
- | Ferran Adrià, the head chef of El Bulli restaurant | + | Ferran Adrià, the head chef of El Bulli restaurant |
Taste is one of the five human senses and allows to detect the flavour of food. Sweet, salty, sour and bitter are the four traditional tastes known in the Western world. These last years, research allowed to add a fifth one, Umami (Japanese term): savoriness or deliciousness, | Taste is one of the five human senses and allows to detect the flavour of food. Sweet, salty, sour and bitter are the four traditional tastes known in the Western world. These last years, research allowed to add a fifth one, Umami (Japanese term): savoriness or deliciousness, | ||
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In connection to this holistic vision of taste by someone interested in architecture, | In connection to this holistic vision of taste by someone interested in architecture, | ||
- | According to Ayurveda1, there are six types of tastes or rasa and each taste has a different effect on digestion. Taste also has a long-term or post digestive effect on the body and its metabolism (vipaaka). A rasa can be light or heavy, moist or dry. Light tastes are easier to digest and assimilate; those that are heavy require most energy to digest. It is interesting to have a detailed account of this rasa classification. Rasa encompasses a wide theoretical aesthetic series of principles for many centuries and is a body of thought which was also used in the performing arts, in Indian classical dance, to classify the expression of emotions and moods. | + | According to Ayurveda(( traditional Hindu system of medicine, based on the idea of balance in bodily systems that uses diet, herbal treatment, and yogic breathing.)), there are six types of tastes or rasa and each taste has a different effect on digestion. Taste also has a long-term or post digestive effect on the body and its metabolism (vipaaka). A rasa can be light or heavy, moist or dry. Light tastes are easier to digest and assimilate; those that are heavy require most energy to digest. It is interesting to have a detailed account of this rasa classification. Rasa encompasses a wide theoretical aesthetic series of principles for many centuries and is a body of thought which was also used in the performing arts, in Indian classical dance, to classify the expression of emotions and moods. |
Specifically, | Specifically, |