If Mario Batali made a chewing gum, what would it taste like?

Okay, this might be weird, but: I chew a fair amount of gum, but I’m not really happy with the idea of putting lots of sugar or artificial sweeteners in my mouth every day. And besides, the flavor is always gone in a few...

Sure, it causes embarrassing digestive problems and makes you look like a Valley girl. But gum manufacturers (and some gum-manufacturer-funded scientific studies) now claim that chewing the stuff improves health.

Gum chewers, you have a favorite brand of chewing gum? I’m partial to Trident Bubble Gum and Dentyne Cinammon Ice. And you?

I bought this small case of Black Black (caffeinated) chewing gum from Japan a while back and wanted to get a refill of it. Inside the plastic container are small, hard, rectangle pieces of black black gum (not sticks). I was...

't know why I didn’t think to post here about this before. Anyway, am I insane or does anybody else remember a brand of chewing gum from the late 60’s/early 70’s that came in four flavors: SWEET, HOT, SOUR &...

New York magazine unpacks a gum taste test starring wd-50’s Wylie Dufresne.

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Yet another reason to scour your local Central American market.

Why chew anything then? Chewing enables digestion but also enables tasting. Imagine swallowing pieces of steak whole. You’d briefly taste the exterior of the meat but it wouldn’t “taste” anything like it...

chewy. It’s the nature of a muscle, which is what an oyster is. If I start chewing, I end up chewing a lot, and then it becomes about digesting the damn thing, rather than enjoying the mouthfeel or flavour. Link:...

From the British Medical Journal: the horrifically effective chewing gum diet.

Special summer flavors to chew over.

Eating much isn’t a great idea. Dry crackers can help. Anything light and easily digestible. Arrowroot biscuits are good. Avoid fat/fatty foods—they’re more work to digest. Herb teas and black teas help digestion....

I like to have lemon in water before I eat, it helps get the digestive juices flowing, and I find my meal digests better. Also after a large meal I will chew a papaya enzyme pill.