On Nov 25, 4:48*pm, Frank Mancuso > wrote:
> Nick Cramer wrote:
> > Is this just a marketing ploy by Kikkoman? Seems to me that you get umami
> > when you have the right balance of sweet, sour, salty, bitter (and
> > spicy/hot) for the dish you're preparing.
>
> > Spicy/hot. Maybe that should be the fifth flavor. Wide range of
> > intensities, durations and location of effects (different parts of the
> > mouth, tongue, throat), sweat (face, brow, top or back of head, back).
>
> > Please educate me. Thanks.
>
> I just saw an Alton Brown Good Eats a couple weeks ago, and he called BS
> on 'umami' too.

Hmm, on the recent "Next Iron Chef" series, he was a big proponent of
umami.