The gnudi splayed around a browned sea scallop were a little sticky, but I forgot that, once I tasted their wildly rich coconut-milk sauce, lush with Kaffir lime and galangal.
Once I tasted the product for the first time, I was sold — both as a subscriber and an investor".
Once I tasted the warm Italian bread, dipped in mildly pungent De Carlo stone-milled extra-virgin olive oil from Puglia, I thought this place might just be a sleeper.
But once I tasted a slice of the restaurant's exquisite beef carpaccio, covered with fresh artichokes and drizzled with rich Tuscan olive oil, I could have cared less about frosty service.
This keratin straightening process is like crack cocaine; once I tasted the pleasure of always looking kempt even on humid days, of being able to do the nonchalant hair toss that those models do, of having my husband run his fingers through my hair and not get stuck in a clump of knots, I was hooked.
Once I taste the dish, I realize it achieves exactly what it set out to do, wow and impress, like Byungmun Seo's bi-chromatic fashions.
But once I got people to try one, once they tasted the chicken we cooked on them, they were hooked".
I once had the pleasure of tasting a cheese that had a rind made out of "chocolate wood bark".
I was taken aback, in the same way that I used to be long ago about Amazon knowing my reading predelictions, before I came to accept that the tastes I once believed were individual are, in fact, cattle-prodded by the same stimuli as every other broadsheet reader out there.
Once I'd tasted the delights of genre fiction – the instant hit, the smash to the head, the flow, the muscle, the vernacular – literary fiction lost all its appeal for me.
