You Taste With Your Nose

​The Hang Theory. A lecture series by Hang Dallas.

​One speaker. One big idea. One good room.

​Where · 2700 SWISS Event Space.

​When you have a cold and dinner tastes like cardboard, the problem is not your tongue. Most of what we call flavor is actually smell, detected not through the nostrils but through a back channel that carries aroma from the mouth to receptors in the nose. Dr. Robert Pellegrino walks through the mechanics: the five tastes the tongue can register, the thousands of odors the nose can distinguish, and the way the brain knits them together into a single sensation we mistake for taste. He covers why expectation bends perception, what happens when smell is lost, and what research reveals about the sensory thresholds of trained tasters.

​How the night goes

​Doors at 6:00 PM. Come early, grab a drink and something to eat, settle in. Robert takes the floor at 7:00 PM. Questions from the room near 7:45 PM. Afterward, stay for a glass of wine with Robert. The best conversations happen then.

​Address: 2700 Swiss Avenue
Suite 100
Dallas, TX 75204, USA