The search for good taste is a trap

I'm back with taste or trend, one recipe and a small shop section.

The concept of taste — good, or not — is amorphously slippery. What is taste, really — it’s the through line of reasoning of when you like something, the theme that holds your aesthetic opinions together. You can’t see it, smell it, touch it (or taste it — pun!) but you have a sense of it.

Are you born with your taste, or is it cultivated? Can it change…