LONDON —A chef at a top restaurant here is urging his guests to listen to their MP3 players when they eat because the sound can make the flavors more intense, he said.
According to a report in Agence France Presse, chef Heston Blumenthal of the three-Michelin-starred Fat Duck restaurant in west London, is asking customers to listen to the sound of breaking waves in order to heighten the flavors of his new dish, called Sound of the Sea. The dish consists of baby eels, razor clams, oysters and seaweed on a bed of tapioca, which is supposed to resemble sand. —A chef at a top restaurant here is urging his guests to listen to their MP3 players when they eat because the sound can make the flavors more intense, he said.
Blumenthal told Square Meal magazine that he had conducted a series of tests with experimental psychologist Charles Spence at Oxford University three years ago, which indicated that sound could enhance the sense of taste. —A chef at a top restaurant here is urging his guests to listen to their MP3 players when they eat because the sound can make the flavors more intense, he said.
“We ate an oyster while listening to the [sounds of the] sea, and it tasted stronger and saltier than when we ate it while listening to barnyard noises, for example,” he said. —A chef at a top restaurant here is urging his guests to listen to their MP3 players when they eat because the sound can make the flavors more intense, he said.
Blumenthal, who in the past has served up such unusual dishes as bacon and egg ice cream, is a proponent of molecular gastronomy, or the application of scientific principles in the kitchen. —A chef at a top restaurant here is urging his guests to listen to their MP3 players when they eat because the sound can make the flavors more intense, he said.
Other dishes currently being developed by Blumenthal include whisky-flavored sweet gums served on a map of Scotland and a sculpture of a rosebush hung with crystallized rose petals. —A chef at a top restaurant here is urging his guests to listen to their MP3 players when they eat because the sound can make the flavors more intense, he said.