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 Develop your sense of taste so you can better appreciate food.
Palate is a fancy word for your sense of taste, but it means more than just a sense of taste. When someone says you have a “fine palate” it means you are someone who knows good food. You can tell the difference between tastes. You have a feel for which flavors will taste good together and which flavors don’t. Most of us haven’t spent five minutes considering the taste of food or refining our palate. But your palate can be developed. One way to do this is through an exercise Gordon Ramsay, a world famous chef, used on his Hell’s Kitchen TV show. Chef Ramsay prepared a group of foods and had blindfolded contestants identify each item they tasted. Whoever identified the most correctly won a prize. I don’t have any prizes for you, but it’s a fun way to start to pay more attention to food and develop your palate. Here’s a list of foods you might try tasting: | · Hot dog | · Short rib | | · Oregano | · Swiss cheese | | · Scallop | · Scrambled egg | | · Chocolate | · Kiwi fruit | | · Cucumber | · Seaweed | | · Tuna | · Potato | | · Chicken cubes each cooked with a different spice from your spice drawer. Cook as many as you can. | It would be best to have the cook not take part in the test, but that doesn’t really matter. With a small group, friends try tasting the different foods blindfolded and see who can identify the most items correctly. Each serving should small, served with a toothpick. You’ll need as many servings for each type of food as you have in the taste test. |
