"Women tend to have a little more of a sweeter palate, a little more of a fruitier palate, and they want to taste the alcohol, but they don't want it to be as powerful as a bourbon or a straight vodka," Mr. Yakoby said.
It's spicy and sweet on the palate with a more pronounced grapefruit pith grip.
But as an aperitif it's far too sweet, for my palate at least.
Alternately dry and sweet on the palate, this syrupy ambrosia brings to mind honey, apricots and marzipan.
We devour the yellow garlicky ectoplasm – and the rich roasted seeds and sharp rhizome liquid of the second dessert make a great sweet and sour palate cleanser.
Our winner this week, though, is from Fadime and it will please any palate: sweet, but fragrant; light, but still heady; simple to make, but vibrant and pretty.
Mr. Chang's recipe was too sweet for my palate, so I reduced the sugar by a third and added a tablespoon of sherry vinegar to his rice wine vinegar brine.
Our tour included Klein Constantia, a vineyard more than three centuries old, crowned by a remarkable Cape Dutch homestead, where I learned that the Madame Malbrook 2008 was buttery and smoky, and the eminent Vin de Constance dessert wine — reputedly adored by Napoleon and written about by Jane Austen — is far too sweet for my palate.
"Brrrraaaaccck," a large sheet of brown paper complained as it was torn from a roll on the Waterman's wall before being wafted over and weighed down by a mallet, a knife and plastic cups of melted butter and Old Bay Seasoning, the dressings that represent the diametric sweet and salty palate that governs a typical crab house spread.
