That must have been a really fun headline to write!
umami is nasty...
NPR uncovers yet another injustice?
Because it is not a flavor
Maybe because it’s not an English word, so nobody knows what the hell it means.
Umami is what makes KFC taste like KFC their 11 secret spices has been exposed via modern mass spectrometry done on the coating that measures down to the part per billion the exact chemical and isotopic composition of every element and compound in the sample...KFC is sodium chloride, white pepper and a very healthy dose of MSG that’s it no other compounds were.found in any of the samples taken from various sources taken.
It is also why miso soup is so damn oishii which the kanji characters literally mean beautiful flavor its Japanese for delicious. Same for smoked tuna toro its loaded with natural umami.
In Texas there is a cult following for the Fiesta brand of fajita seasonings the second ingredient is MSG people put that sh1t on everything from French fries to burgers to grilled vegetables its solidly a cult in South and Central Texas.
Soy sauce is also loaded with natural umami the famous mama Ninfa who commercialised fajitas in four the ward Houston in the 1970s uses soy sauce and garlic butter to baste the skirt steaks while on a whitehot mesquite fired parilla best fajitas around anywhere people drive from hundreds of miles around to go to the original location in 4th ward her “secret sauce” was soy based garlic butter in heavy amounts and the associated Millard reaction under high heat with glutamate as the amino base for the Millard reaction.