If you couldn't taste your food, what would you eat? Would
you even want to? Taste disorders are rare, but they can have devastating
impacts on people's lives. They can also tell us a lot about our food.
Emily Thomas meets a cookery writer who says she wanted to
die after a car accident robbed her of taste. But as the sense slowly returned
she became a more experimental cook.
Discuss:
What
would it be like to have no sense of taste? How would affect your life?
Which foods might still hold some attraction for you? Why?
Cheese
Carrots
Muesli
Nuts
Chili peppers
Yogurt
Chocolate
Pancakes
Tomato soup
Steamed dumplings
Ice cream
Lemon
Bread
Eggs
Listen from 17:30 to the end:
I Can't Taste!
Discuss:
What
would it be like to have no sense of taste? How would affect your life?
Listen from 17:30 to the end:
The ____ thing I knew
At _____ point did you realise
It just tasted ____
I ____ excuses
When did you ____ conformation
We'll just have to ____
Q: What could Marlena smell?
It _____ a bit frivolous
My career _____ to a halt
Q: What
did she have jettison?
it ______ my mind up
Q: What
did Marlena learn about food?
I _____ a dab of chili oil
I know it ______ bizarre
According to Professor Barry Smith,
1. What
should do if you have a disrupted sense of taste?
2. How is smell training similar to learning to appreciate classical music?
2. Why
is your sense of smell so important?
3. Why
does spicy food not damage your taste
buds?
Words we use to describe the taste, aroma, sensation, texture, appearance and even sounds of food and drink:
tangy
delicate
acrid
moist
crackling
acrid
moist
crackling
crumbly
bubbly
bubbly
doughy
fizzy
bland
frothy
faint smells or taste of
gooey
bland
frothy
faint smells or taste of
gooey
aftertaste of
foretaste of
gleaming
steaming
piping hot
spongy
slimy
juicy
foretaste of
gleaming
steaming
piping hot
spongy
slimy
juicy
lemony
gingery
crunchy
metallic
nutty
coolingrefreshing
crispy
crispy
greasy
salty
salty
Try using these words to describe the following sweet treats to alien from another galaxy who has never tried them.
think about texture, sweetness, flavours, smell, temperature, consistency, density, sensations while you are eating or drinking it, contrasting sensations or tastes, how it feels in your belly...
A Snickers bar
Cheese cake
A Snickers bar
Cheese cake
Apple pie and hokey-pokey ice-cream
Cocacola
Ginger beer
Hot chocolate
Cocacola
Ginger beer
Hot chocolate
True or false?
1. Wine experts can't even tell the difference between some red and white wines if they can't see them.
2. The study of wine experts was carried out in an academically rigorous way.
3. Wine is purely psychology - there's nothing actually physically pleasant about the way any wine tastes.
Which stress pattern is more likely?
WINE list / wine LIST
HOW am i supPOSED to CHOOSE? / how AM i SUPposed TO choose
DEfer / deFER
FIT to drink / FIT to DRINK
a BOTtle of KETCHup / a BOTle of ketchUP
SUPerNATural POWers / superNATural powers
PREGnant / pregNANT
i BEG to DIFfer / I beg to difFER
Listen and check
Continue listening and just NOTICE how these phrases are stressed:
INcredibly REfined / inCREDibly reFINED
UNsuSPECTing / unSUSpecting
CHEAP TAble wine / cheap table WINE
i SHALL be REturning / i shall be reTURNing
pretty much WHAT you'd exPECT / PRETy MUCH what YOU'D expect
ALL wine is TERrible / all WINE is TERrible
TOTally subJECTive / totALly SUBjective
peaNUTbutter and SARDines / PEAnutbutter and sarDINES
it DOESn't MATter / IT doesn't MATter
OBjective TRUTH / obJECTive TRUTH
acCESSible / ACcesible
TASTy FERmented GRAPES / TASTy ferMENTed GRAPES
Some people find this activity very helpful in attuning their ear and for reinforcing their active vocabulary. Listen over again and try to hear these stress patterns:
WINE list
HOW am i supPOSED to CHOOSE?
ARE you SURE?
deFER
SO-called
FIT to DRINK
CHEAP SWILL
a BOTtle of KETCHup
SUPerNATural POWers of WINE disCERNment
NINEteen THIRTy-FOUR
PREGnantCAN"T tell the DIFference EITHer
i BEG to DIFfer
inCREDibly reFINED
OTHerwise
UNsuSPECTing
JUICy and roBUST
vaNILla and OAK
the SAME WINE
NONE of the parTIcipants could TELL
exPENSive GRAND CRU
CHEAP TAble wine
i shall be reTURNing
pretty much WHAT you'd exPECT
Even NOticed
YOU'VE conVINCED me
ALL wine is TERrible
TOTally subJECTive
PEAnutbutter and sarDINES
it DOESn't MATter
obJECTive TRUTH
HIGH CLASS ITem
acCESSible
TASTy ferMENTed GRAPES
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