Dan Goodman's gonna like this story

From Reuters, via CNN.com:

Music can be a mouth-watering experience for one Swiss musician who 'tastes' combinations of notes as distinct flavors, according to a report in the science journal Nature.

Goodman's been exploring synesthesia (as I spell it in my quaint American way) in his blog and elsewhere. This story's of interest to me, too, because I've occasionally experienced synesthesia, especially as a child, and my mother has too. I mentioned a synesthetic experience to her when I was about 9 and she responded that she'd once heard a note or chord on the piano that she thought sounded purple.