It's good, nonetheless, with plenty of flavorful meat, which would taste even better if it were not served quite so cold.
It was pretty cheap, about £2, but you can buy a bottle of low-quality vodka for that in Moscow, which would taste nicer and could well be better for your health.
It seems unlikely that a savory Chinese or Korean turnip pancake was on the menu, so I like to imagine that she whipped up a kind of latkes, made from half grated potato and half grated turnip, which would taste equally good with butter and syrup or sour cream and smoked fish.
For example, I could determine which orange looked better, but I didn't know which one would taste the best.
Being a 'foodie' and sommelier, she led the way in orchestrating the dinner, from recommending food and wine pairings, to the order in which we would taste each component on the table.
For me, it was the vegetables with brown rice, which I expected would taste like a tea made by steeping the yellowed pages of the "Moosewood Cookbook" in warm kombucha and straining it through Pigpen's bandanna.
While the former option would consist in a distasteful gustatory experience elicited by quinine solution, the latter option would consist of a post-ingestional malaise induced by the quinine solution, which would not necessarily taste bad to bees but which would be toxic once ingested [25].
Furthermore, the students would often list a favorite food with what seemed an incorrect flavor ("my favorite food is ice cream, which is salty"), and then they would say they tasted that flavor on the tip of their tongue, which is not where one would taste "salty" (the side of the tongue) but is where one would taste ice cream, assuming it was sweet.
She had never let herself drink much at all, not even "more than one little cup of wine, diluted according to her own temperate palate, which, out of courtesy, she would taste".
He tried to fix things by sending funny cards "just because," by calling me to check in, by bribing me with a free meal at my favorite restaurant which he promised (and I knew) would taste infinitely better than cafeteria food.
It was basically Rhinehart's formula, which I'd tasted in L.A.: a thick, tan liquid that is yeasty, grainy, and faintly sweet.
