On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:06:50 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
> wrote:

> I always had the i pression that umami was an idea or a pleasant impression,
> or a feeling, not an actual physical product. I don't know where that idea came
> from.
>
> N.
> I always had the i pression that umami was an idea or a pleasant impression,
> or a feeling, not an actual physical product.

Correct.

> I don't know where that idea came from.
>
You know how people are these days. They want a shortcut to
reproducing it rather than learn to combine ingredients deftly until
they create umami.

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sf