England’s most likeable chef Heston Blumenthal has embarked on the kindest of crusades — he’s signed up with the NHS to try and improve the food for old patients. finding ways to improve the food in old age homes.
And how he’s going to do it? “Umami is a great way to …improve the flavour in the mouth” he says. Remind me, what is Umami?The Fifth taste,a kind of vague savouriness to go along with sweet, sour, bitter, salty…. Unami foods include shitake mushrooms, anchovies, parmesan, worcester sauce. He seems to have missed out on the mightiest source of Umami, the TOMATO not to mention TOMATO KETCHUP. Ronald Reagan was jeered for saying so — but he was right, tomato ketchup is an important food.
