"I started thinking about other foods I didn’t like. Capers. Kimchi. Cloves. Pepper. Kale. Coffee was drinkable—in fact, positively delicious—only with milk and

"I started thinking about other foods I didn’t like. Capers. Kimchi. Cloves. Pepper. Kale. Coffee was drinkable—in fact, positively delicious—only with milk and sugar. Seltzer required enough discreet mouth-sloshing to subdue the effervescence. And I couldn’t imagine why anyone would eat a radish unless paid. It was more like a bee sting than a vegetable." That's too bad! These spices and foods are all among my favorites. I'm curious what flavors the author enjoys most given her taste receptor situation. "I dislike—in some cases, hate, hate, hate!—many fruits, and had not eaten a peach or a banana since I was a child, though I had smelled them, with displeasure ..." This wasn't addressed in the article, but are bitterness receptors involved with tasting fruits? Although it seems more likely the 23andMe test doesn't identify taste variations that involve those flavors. Or maybe those dislikes are just unrelated to biology.