Algernon was employed in the comfortable degustation of his breakfast, meditating whether he should transfer a further slice of ham or of Yorkshire pie to his plate, or else have done with feeding and light a cigar, when Edward appeared before him.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
For my own part, I am not only persuaded that without the interposition of the organs of smell, there would be no complete degustation, and that the taste and the sense of smell form but one sense, of which the mouth is the laboratory and the nose the chimney; or to speak more exactly, that one tastes tactile substances, and the other exhalations.
"The Physiology of Taste"
Brillat Savarin
Poets complain that the throat is too short for the uses of degustation, and others lament the want of capacity of the stomach.
"The Physiology of Taste"
Brillat Savarin