The Abstract Palate
This page is devoted to the creative images, sensations, and nuances used to describe the soul of cheese, wine, and food.
Antiquities: “When the hand has a soul in it, the food has another taste.”
old wood (Madeira Wine, 1850)
antiquarian books (Madeira Wine, 1850)
Scientific
Xino Vari (“heavy acid” trahana/world’s oldest instant soup)
Rheological: soft biological solids (Rheology)
Personification
Nervous energy (Blanc de Blanc Champagne, Jose Dhondt)