Description These are four easy and flavorful vegetable starters that will help you to define the character of your food. In traditional French cuisine, a savory vegetable base is known as a “mirepoix.” Because these vegetable bases define much of the characteristic and flavor of the dish, I wanted to give you a few options […]
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Lesson 6: The Other Senses (Sight, Sound, Touch)
The Other Senses (Touch, Sight, Sound) Touch Touch is a sense that is even more involved in the sensory experience of food than most people would even realize. After sight and smell, touch has the largest impact on whether someone enjoys eating a food or not. Touch is typically expressed as texture in your mouth. […]
Lesson 4: Herbs and Spices
Herbs and Spices Now that we are familiar with taste, its complexities, and the basics of our other senses, we need to talk a little more in depth about smell. Or, what I call “the nose of your food.” You can make many fantastic dishes with very basic ingredients, like kosher salt, MSG, black pepper, […]
Lesson 5: Aromatics
Aromatics Something like 90 percent of all experiences that you have with food are actually nasal related. This is super important to know, because embracing the role that your nose plays in the eating experience will enable you to create richer, fuller eating experiences. As I have previously pointed out, it is the smell of […]
Lesson 2: Taste and the 5 Flavors
Taste and the 5 Flavors Taste itself, is in reality only a small fraction of the sensory experience of cooking and eating. What you actually taste when you eat are 5 primal flavors which are: salty, savory, spicy, sour, and sweet. Each one of these basic taste sensations lends itself as a piece of the whole […]
Lesson 1: What is Flavor?
What is flavor? And how do we experience it? If someone were to ask you to define the idea of flavor to someone who had never eaten before, how would you describe it? Would you aim for the scientific concept of the action of chewing and the detection of chemical compounds and flavors by the […]