SC - Spices and sensitive palates (and other
Peters, Rise J.
PETERSR at spiegel.becltd.com
Tue Sep 30 13:51:41 PDT 1997
Kyhe wrote:
<<ANYTHING served with a quantity of spicing exceeding
the normal modern palate is best served with accompanying
admonitions.
Agreed. But...
<<Server: "My lords and ladies, for some palates the cook may
have been a little heavy-handed with the ginger in
this dish."
Can we come up with an alternative phrasing that makes clear that it wasn't
the cook making a mistake, but simply a correctly-prepared dish that some
may find surprising? "Good gentles, this dish, prepared according to a
recipe handed down to the cook by his grandmother, includes enough ginger to
wake the dead." Or something of that sort.<g> In either case, folk may
grouse that they don't like ginger, but there's a difference between knowing
that you don't like a particular dish that was fixed correctly, and thinking
that the dish was ruined because the cook erred.
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