Can anybody really explain the taste of okra?
looking back now, my son came up with some sort of a description of the taste of okra. he's known for his complex analogies on food and their different tastes, and he had this to say about our soup one night:
“when you first taste it it’s just like water, but if you let
it stay longer in your mouth you will begin to realize that it tastes
wonderful. it came from one source but they have different tastes inside your mouth. mommy, this soup is like
parallel evolution.”
there isn’t a day when we don’t have okra on the dinner
table. my kids love to eat vegetables and my daughter who's four years old now, would even trade cookies for white onions when she was one.
my then eleven year old’s review of okra?
“it’s the taste of emptiness.”
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i love the smell of wasabi. if i’m not eating it, i’m
sniffing it. so dipping okra in soy sauce with wasabi is like sitting
between conan o’brien and dexter -- a description of a great experience.
according to our food guru, “the taste of wasabi is
complicated.”
no further explanation to that. no implosion or explosion of
flavors. just that…wasabi tastes complicated.
