Taste Preferences – are they Learned, Genetic, Both or NEITHER?

| October 27, 2011

Ever since I can remember I have been fascinated by taste preferences.   I often ponder how things that I find simply delightful are disgusting to someone else?  Why doesn’t everyone love black olives and jalapeno peppers? Is it genetic?  Is it learned?  BOTH?  NEITHER? I have always hypothesized that a lot of it was […]