... challenge us to experience the uncommon and embrace new sensations. Acquired tastes reach beyond the pantry. Appreciating opera, modern art, square dancing, Sudoku, all can be acquired tastes. In fact, some not-easy-to-love people can be acquired tastes. Singer Tori Amos, the daughter of a Methodist preacher, once admitted “I know I’m an acquired taste. I’m anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.” Our palettes may have become more welcoming towards things we didn’t used to ...
