tasting and how your memory retains the taste.... (tackle this one cecil, my friend)

Elite minds of the SDMB:

I recently tasted something that brought me back to a young childhood. It seems I always have the tendency to remember tastes and recognize it immediately. just think, how many times have you eaten something years down the road and can link it back to another time earlier in your life…

I understand the short term and long term memory and how it works…with that said… where are tastes stored? are there tastes that are retained in short term and not long term?

Respectfully,

JT

Proust in his first book wrote about wrote about… [ding!]