Food and Your Five Senses

How do you associate food and your five senses? If you think of more later, you can have more than one favorite.

Sight: gorgeous ripe tomatoes off the vine
Hearing: the sound that a steak makes as it hits a hot grill
Smell: sautéed peppers and onions
Taste: cheesecake with strawberry topping
Touch: kneading bread dough

Wow, this is an easy one... I SEE the Cantina, knowing their take out burrito will be ready a few minutes after I order it... I HEAR that squak box asking me my order... I double check to make sure they heard me say Meat Sauce on that Burro... I pull up to the take out window and SMELL that burro and it's brothers in the background... TASTE dont happen until I get home, though temptations run deep on that 5 mile drive... TOUCH is getting that spilled sauce off the bag that seeped thru the take out container (my bad for asking for extra meat sauce)... You just missed SATISFACTION, when that burro becomes true history... One of the most important senses!

Ifeel the hot sun on my back, as I walk the streets of a small village in Andalucia, Spain. I see a bunch of people walking through this little narrow doorway that leads into a bodega (wine bar). The floor shines with the patina of years of footsteps. I smell decadent aromas coming from the kitchen. There are sausages/salt-cured hams (serranos) hanging from the ceiling boards. Long ropes holding bunches of garlic, onion, and peppers hang behind the bar. I taste the dryness of my copa de fino. Tapas are placed on the bar. I feel the spiciness of the sizzling prawns on my lips. I taste the garlic, chili pepper, olive oil as I soak up the sauce with my piece of pan casero. From the corner of the adjoining room, there is music. There are no vocals. All I hear is the gypsy-like sound of guitar in the flamenco band. I take another sip of my dry sherry and place a sautéed oyster mushroom in my mouth, as I dream of what the night is to bring.

I know what the night would bring if I placed a sauteed oyster mushroom in my mouth. It would be one long night of upchucking.

SIGHT- A beautiful tossed salad in a cut glass bowl
HEARING- The sound made when you cut into a watermelon
SMELL - Baking of fresh yeast bread
TASTE- Anything "Chocolate"
FEEL- The feel of melted butter dripping off my corn on the cob

Michael.. lol.. I take it you don't like oyster mushrooms. I didn't think I would either, but I have tried them. They taste alittle like seafood. I guess you could say I like all kinds of food.

mmm emsmom, I am waiting with anticipation for corn again. It's so good on the grill! And, I can relate to the feel of the melted butter.

Sight: The huge expanse of green at the produce department in Wegman's
Hearing: same, steak on a grill.
Smell: two different images hit at almost the same time; the smell of Pennsylvania Macaroni on the strip district in Pittsburgh, and the smell of a pizza parlor around lunch time
Taste: Chili and dark beer.
Feel: the feel of chopping vegetables, for some reason. Second was patting burgers.


Tom

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Originally posted by juliev

Michael.. lol.. I take it you don't like oyster mushrooms. I didn't think I would either, but I have tried them. They taste alittle like seafood. I guess you could say I like all kinds of food.

I'm allergic to mushrooms.

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Originally posted by Michael Hoffman

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Originally posted by juliev

Michael.. lol.. I take it you don't like oyster mushrooms. I didn't think I would either, but I have tried them. They taste alittle like seafood. I guess you could say I like all kinds of food.

I'm allergic to mushrooms.

that must bite Michael! only thing I'm allergic to is non-food related... just weeds.