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L-glutamate, said Ikeda, is a fifth taste. When Escoffier created veal stock, he was concentrating umami. When Japanese made their dashi, they were doing the same thing. When you bite into an anchovy, they are like glutamate speedballs. They are pure umami, Jonah writes. Aristotle was wrong. Plato was wrong.
Umami: The 5th Taste. When we were in grade school, many of us learned that there were four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Now there's a new taste to learn and it's called umami (pronounced oo-mommy). Actually, while the term is new to us, it's not new to the Japanese, who have used the term to describe the fifth taste since the early 1900s.