We know that we don't taste in a vacuum: we taste in a cacophony of senses, ideas and emotions. We also know that the minute you decide that you like something or not, you stop really tasting it and go off on a jag of self-congratulation about having figured this particular taste out.
Maybe it's possible that deliberately calibrating your attitude toward what you're tasting, even using a convenient mantra, could slow you down and allow you to taste more and more deeply. Let's try this:
prepare yourself for tasting with these two mantras:
• this is an unfamiliar taste and it puzzles me
• this is a familiar taste and it reassures me
Repeat them each a dozen times or so. Imagine feeling the puzzlement or the reassurance. Now taste your way through dinner or along the buffet line.
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