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Wine 7 min

Food & Wine Pairing, Part 1

On trusting yourself, specific anosmia, and why the stakes for this game are as low as they can possibly be

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Flavor and taste are inextricable and as a result we're left with a very small amount of certainty — it tastes sweet — and a very large amount of uncertainty — it tastes like raspberry, no wait mulberry, actually it's more like fig, to be honest it's less fig-like and more like the way a fig leaf smells which is sort of like vetiver, but not the vetiver that smells like patchouli. You know what I mean? No? Hmm.