Weird that this flavour that’s been recognised in eastern cuisine for 100s if not 1000s of years uses a borrowed word in English when it’s only been acknowledged in western cuisine for a few decades.

FYI ‘savoury’ is a borrowed word from French.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 3 points 1 year ago

It is weird that we have a word to describe it, yet instead used a different languages word for something we already have a word for.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's been acknowledged in western cuisine forever too lol. You think western chefs just could've put a finger on meat char tasting good across all of human history??

No it's just that it was discovered to be a fundamental receptor on the tongue which responds to amino acids. It was discovered by a Japanese researcher. The weird eastern exceptionalism is just silly if you take five seconds to look into why it's named umami.