The subject of this post is the headline for this week's column, in which I discuss how other factors, apart from the food itself contribute to our sense of taste such as the atmosphere and the environment. I've noticed that although I use the same raw ingredients, spices and methods of cooking as that back home, the dish would still not taste the same as if I were having it at a table surrounded by friends or family.
Saturday, 13 January 2007
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Our palates change over time as well.
You are so right about our palates changing over time. Sometimes, depending on where we live abroad and what kind of access we have to familiar ingredients, our palates change and become accustomed to the "diluted" form of the things we eat and drink. When we go back home, or visit somewhere else where we have an opportunity to taste the "real" thing, it can be shocking and a turn off in some cases because the flavour is too instense for our now changed palates.
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