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I was surprised to see that Truong's Book of Salt used taste so heavily. I don't think I've thought about taste much before, let alone saw taste as a useful was to describe other human emotions. For example,

"Under their gentle guidance... even I can disgorge enough pathos and cheap souvenir tragedies to sustain them. They are never gluttonous in their desires, rather the opposite." p 20

This book really reminds me of the poem Cantone because of how it is using language AND taste to describe something else, something more hidden. For example
"for every coarse, misshapen phrase, for every blundered, dislocated word, I pay a fee. A man with a borrowed, ill-fitting tongue, I connot compete for this city's attention. I cannot participate in the lively lover's quarrel between it and its inhabitants." p 18