Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Tasting and learning

The Sudanese cuisine consists of a variety of spices, ingredients and flavours. I used to get confused to remember it all, but since a few days I have a very talented 'tasting' teacher to show me all the tricks of the Sudanese cuisine. Every morning, she brings a home-made biscuit, cake or savoury pastry with her to the office. She would wait for the right moment to come to me and reveal her new tasty product. "Taste it!", she then says without any hesitation. When I put the home-made biscuit to my mouth she does not take her eyes of me. Then she waits for me to give a short review (-and trust me, it is always positive!). I then have to guess how it has been made and what kind of ingredients have been used. Whenever I get it wrong, she would start laughing before correcting me, as a true tasting teacher. "Who made it? Me or my sister?", she would ask me as a final question. Whenever I guess it right, she gives me another of her biscuits. And, whenever I guess it wrong, she would give me another biscuit as well....for being such a devoted student. ;)