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In 2005, Heston Blumenthal produced a series of television programmes called Kitchen Chemistry with Heston Blumenthal which were transmitted on Discovery Science along with a book Kitchen chemistry, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and distributed to 6,000 schools in the UK and Ireland.The complete set is:Kitchen Chemistry – Beef.avikitchen Chemistry – Chocolate.aviKitchen Chemistry – Ice Cream.aviKitchen Chemistry – Jellies.aviKitchen Chemistry – Salt.aviKitchen Chemistry – Vegetables.avihttp://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/science/kitchen_chemistryThe science behind cooking affects the way that we perceive taste and flavour – in addition to the four well-known taste sensations the tongue can detect (sweet, sour, salt and bitter) we have a fifth, known as umami.