When dealing with cocktail recipes, one might ask how good taste can be achieved. In this post, I will try to give an at least partial answer to this question and, as an example, explain how Salvatore Calabrese's delicious Breakfast Martini satisfies the criterion derived before. I will also briefly touch upon further examples that illustrate the concept. As is commonly known, the sensation that we usually call taste is produced both by our sense of taste and our sense of smell. There are five basic tastes that we can detect with our tastebuds: sweet, sour, bitter, salty and savory (umami). So it is safe to say that…