Palate DevelopmentSession III

Today’s Agenda

1. Professionalism2. Tasting and Evaluation3. The Language of Critique

Professionalism

Definition Brainstorm:

What words do you think of when you hear the word “professionalism” or the word “professional”

Self Assessment

• Identify one piece of you’re your personal behavior that would be considered an unprofessional habit

• Write it down on a piece of paper• Also write down what specific thing you

can do to help yourself break that habit

Break

Take a few minutes to stretch your legs while the tasting gets set -up

Tasting and Evaluation

• Take a taste• Evaluate for the following characteristics

– Appearance– Taste– Texture– Aroma

• Write down your comments

Evaluation

• The Language of Critique– We are supported and limited by our language

and definitions– Adjectives used for evaluation must be

specific

Six Senses

• Taste– What happens chemically on your tongue

• Smell– What happens chemically in your nose

• Touch– The feeling of food

• Sight– The difference between light/dark, size, shape, and motion

• Sound– (Usually a purely associative sense in the case of food)

• Intuition– Judgments of quality unrelated to the sensual reality being

evaluated

Define Quality

• What are the words used to accurately define the quality standards for the following items?

Homework

Find one person that you may consider (and that I may consider) a “master” of our craft and be prepared to identify him or her when you come to class

(who can we think of off the top of our heads?)

Next Session’s Agenda

• Getting Involved• Career Development• Meeting the Masters of our Craft

Wrap Up

• Take 2-3 minutes to come up with the

coolest thing that you have learned today

• Write it down• We will “whip around” the room and ask

each person to share VERY RAPIDLY what that topic was