have a taste for something

I tasted the dark side of my love for the town.

It was something he had not tasted for eight years.

She had to taste it for the dogs, she'd say.

They haven't forgotten what it was like to taste freedom for the first time.

And perhaps they would have you believe I tasted death for my own glory.

You are more than I have tasted for a long time.

Would it help to know that one's children might have what one was not allowed to taste for oneself?

He tasted oatmeal for the first time since he'd moved out of his mother's house.

I'm not going to taste anything for a week.

Salt to taste for the pots and cream, of course.