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Re:Who the Hell Uses Onion Juice? by empath75 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:36PM (#16172709)
Because savory has other meanings in cooking and umami is a essentially a pure concept in English. Umami means one and exactly one thing.
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Re:Who the Hell Uses Onion Juice? by ghaff on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:21PM (#16173033)
Exactly. Essentially English co-opted umami as a stand-in for glutamate-y which, we can probably agree is an aesthetic improvement. It's at least arguably a subset of savory but as I commented earlier there are clearly meanings of savory in cooking/baking that have no relationship to umami as the term is used in English.
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