Food provides fuel for us.
I enjoy providing this necessary physical fuel.
I am passionate about providing the mental/emotional fuel.
It all ends up in the toilet...what is it about the journey that evokes so much?
Grown on a farm
Bought in a market
Cooked with love
Eaten with...
I strive to make eating food an experience that uses as many senses as posible.
Balancing components and elements, piecemeal and as a whole plate/tasting/menu.
What is subjective?
Eyes: are drawn to...contrasting colors, height differences, variations in shape.
OR
Shades of one color pulling your eye around the plate, uniformity of shape and height.
The nose: aroma is experienced before, during, and after mastication.
Enhancing...shaping the flavor profile, making you salivate, anticipate.
The subtle/blunt counterpoint to...
Taste: the tongue, though hard to spell is useful for more than shaping sounds and taunting.
Sour-sweet-salty-bitter and the newcomer umami, but what of metallic? Surely there are others that exist.
Texture/Mouthfeel: soft, crunchy, oily, creamy...on this I will defer to
Wikipedia...go read it, I will wait.
See, it was short and interesting. Balance is key, variations on a theme, degrees or contrasts.
But did not include...
Temperature: the hot with the not, flavors fade and peak at different temperatures. Cold things need more salt, more sugar. Aromas are volatile... released at just the right moment/temperature...then fade, gone. A memory now complete.
What did it mean to you?
Where did it get stored?
How did you file it?
