Food for thought.
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In Los Angeles there’s a chef who has no sense of smell. 20-year-old Adam Cole, of barbecue restaurant Maple Block Meat Co, can detect the five basic tastes on the tongue (sweet, sour, bitter, salt and umami) but aromas – estimated by some to constitute around 80 per cent of the flavour experience – elude him.