It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead.
He said he was also working on ways of replicating sweetness and spiciness by rapidly heating and cooling the tongue.
Spiciness is also called the "pungent flavor" among the five flavors.
His strange habit formed when he was a youngster when he says he could go without meat or eggs but could not do without spiciness.
