I throughy enjoyed the culinary interim!
During the last few days we continued to sample cheeses and chocolates. On the last day of class, our daily chocolate tasting was of the mystery chocolates we tasted at the beginning if the course.
#1 : sweet chocolate smell, soft mouth feel, mellow chocolate taste throughout, kinda tart after taste.This could be dove or Hershey's milk chocolate because it is so sweet and tastes like milk chocolate
#2: floral, vanilla chocolate smell, very subtle cinnamon taste, mellow chocolate taste throughout.
#3: nice sweet and chocolate smell, wonderful smooth taste, full and chocolaty, this tastes like a hight cocoa percentage than the other 2.
Next, Dr. Sloan polled the class on which mystery chocolate we liked best. 17 voted for #1, 8 voted for #2 and 5 voted for #3. On the first day of class, 17 voted for #1, 3 voted for #2, and 0 voted for #3. When I looked back at my notes from the first day, I saw that my taste didn't change. From the beginning I preferred the Schaffenberger.
Next Caroline G gave a presentation on liquid smoke
I had no idea that liquid smoke wasn't just chemicals. It's actually condensed smoke mixed with water. I liked how she prepared samples for us using tofu. The different smokes tastes drastically different.
I learned so much from this interim. I will use the knife skills and cheese making techniques in the future. I liked everything we did in class, except for most of the mystery chocolate tastings. My tastes have definitely changed since the beginning of interim. I didn't know how much I loved cheese until the tastings. I also found that I really liked the versitility of an egg. I really liked learning recipes an how to cut up a chicken.
There was nothing that I really didn't like about the structure of the course. I loved it!
