On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:57:47 -1000, dsi1 wrote:

> On 2/10/2010 10:12 AM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
>> ImStillMags wrote:
>>>
>>> How can you have a tube of umami? Umami is another dimension of
>>> taste, not a thing.
>>
>> Salt is both a taste and an item. Sweet is also both a taste and an
>> item. Umami is detection of a set of amino acids mostly glutamate. The
>> paste should be made of a mixture of animo acids primarily glutamic acid.
>>
>> More likely it's a reduced soy and mushroom mush.
>
> Yummy! - I think I'll stick with Ajinomoto. :-)

you can be that would be cheaper than a tube of the miracle paste.

your pal,
blake