If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.
And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
You cannot know wine by the barrell.
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
Part of what makes a great chef is the ability to adapt, cook, and to taste. A great chef will use all their food knowledge, food memories, and senses to work with each ingredient and apply themselves to the dish they are creating.
It goes back to the early days in the kitchen where you would be tasting dishes all night long, so the last thing I want to do in the morning is eat. Chefs generally tend to be grazers.
Bake Off' has been a renaissance for me. I turn up, taste something and get paid rather well. What could be nicer?
As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along.
I love cooking and eating - I'm a total foodie. It started off as a survival thing as a student, when cheese and potato pie was all I could afford to make. My most successful results come from concocting something with leftovers. Any chef will tell you that you should taste as you cook, so I might make it a bit more spicy, yogurty or eggy.
If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.
If I'm not tasting wine and food... I'm thinking about wine and food. If I'm not thinking about wine and food... I'm writing about wine and food.
