Flavours & Memories

Flavours and memory go hand in hand.  

The process of recognising a flavour, understanding it and then reconnecting to the food you've had in your life is the most beautiful connection between flavour and memory. 

When this happens, the moment that the flavours hit your palate, you are taken back to your memory of the same Ingredient you have eaten before countless times. 

My memories are the reason I enjoy certain types of food and dislike certain others.

The dishes we eat at home or have eaten when we were Young are almost always what we crave the most. 

Simply the aroma of a dish your mother makes is enough to remind you of home. 

A chilled ice cream is enough to bring back your fondest memories of school.  

All this and many more memories together bring about your choices in food. 

For me the turning point in understanding flavour profiles was back when I was in Thailand. 

I Never realised how simply the memory of the aroma of the Dishes I had seen in Thailand would follow me to India and make me addicted to a cuisine I never liked before. 

I was mesmorised by how easy it was to understand and love an ingredient if you were to make it a part of your memories. 

And how easy it becomes to relive that memory by making that Ingredient a part of your dish. 

As someone who loves food I can honestly say that some of my most happy memories are associated with food and flavours and I hope that I make more and more memories with these.