Imagine taking 50 pennies and placing them in your mouth. Get them all up in there, lined against your gums. Put them on top of your tongue, so all your taste buds are covered. How does that taste?

A listener was wondering what my response as a restaurant person is to hearing about pine nut mouth. So here it is. We will no longer have pine nuts on the menu. If we happen to find Italian or ...

New research investigating the composition of pine nuts has failed to fully uncover a reason behind the mystery of why thousands of people around the world have experienced taste disturbances – known ...

Scientists on the trail of "pine nut mouth," a nasty metallic aftertaste that some people get after eating the tender little nuts, have been stumped in their latest effort to zero in on the cause of ...

To the bartender at Father’s Office in Culver City, who graciously replaced my California chardonnay with an Italian white on Monday night because the chardonnay tasted rancid: I apologize. Weirdly, ...

Q: My son made a fancy pasta dish sprinkled with pine nuts for his girlfriend. Within a couple of days, he developed a terrible bitter taste in his mouth that became worse when he ate anything, ...

Some people who chew areca nut may be genetically more prone to mouth cancer, a new report in the British Journal of Cancer reveals. October 12, 2004 -- Some people who chew areca nut may be ...