Bad to the Last Drop
By Tom Standage, NYTimes
London: It's summertime, and odds are that at some point during your day you'll reach for a nice cold bottle of water. But before you do, you might want to consider the results of an experiment I conducted with some friends one summer evening last year. On the table were 10 bottles of water, several rows of glasses and some paper for recording our impressions. We were to evaluate samples from each bottle for appearance, odor, flavor, mouth, feel and aftertaste - and our aim was to identify the interloper among the famous names. One of our bottles had been filled from the tap. Would we spot it?
Tom Standage, author of "A History of the World in Six Glasses," is the technology editor of The Economist.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
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