Cooking class

Sarah and I are taking a cooking class together.  In our first class, we learned about taste and flavor. It was really interesting. For example, we ate a jelly bean with our nose plugged and all we could taste was the sugar. When we unplugged our nose, then we could taste the flavor. To learn about the five basic tastes (salty, sweet, bitter, sour and savory) and how they interact with each other, Sarah created a mise en place that had melon, radicchio, lime, sugar and salt and then we ate them in different combinations. The radicchio was definitely most palatable when there was a bit of melon, salt and lime juice with it. And we really like the melon with lime juice!!! I can't wait to see what else we learn.

Sarah trying out the different combinations of tastes with her siblings.