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In order to make delicious food, you must eat delicious food. The quality of ingredients is important, but one must develop a palate capable of discerning good and bad. Without good taste, you can’t make good food. If your sense of taste is lower than that of the customers how will you impress them?

Chef Jiro Ono

We mostly eat what we like (give or take). Before you can change what you eat, you need to change what you like. And you will never like new foods unless you give yourself the chance to try them. The fact that you don’t like something now is not necessarily a sign that you will never like

Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Developing taste

Mounica Veggalam • 2 cards

Taste and vibes

Perzen Patel • 3 cards

nourishment.

collection of textures, flavors, cuisines and recipes

Rachel Bussey

Unpacking taste

Jessica Lillico • 2 cards

Taste is developing a refined sense of judgment and finding the balance that produces a pleasing and integrated whole.

Ken Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

how to build your taste?

never stop eating

Our tastes are learned in the context of immense social influences, whether from our family, our friends, or the cheery font on a bottle of soda. Yet it’s still possible, as Duncker showed, to carve out new tastes for ourselves. We can put the impressionable nature of our likes to good use. If we expose ourselves enough times to enough different fo