Tag: Food photography

Food Tasting – Being the Food Taster!

Food Taster –  Perform standardized qualitative and quantitative tests to determine the physical or chemical properties of food or beverage products.

I Don’t know exactly when I became a trustworthy food taster. Ever since I tasted food on my pallete. I Criticised food to be nearly perfect according to my taste buds.

This was much more Masterchef or cooking shows being popular.

Right from my teenage First for my Mom -( kitchen701)Tasting food and giving the feedback to get the perfect meal out of it.

Indian,Chinese and continental – The Salt,The cheese and the richness of the food.

Than slowly became a taster for Mami’s Baking (Teaser) criticising the sweetness,The missing element and ocassinally the texture – Whether its too soft or hard.

This I hardly knew,One day would help me professionally too and when I began working with an Luxury events & Wedding company. And Given the profile of F&B (Food & Beverage ) For most of the projects I have done so far.

I hardly knew – It could become a challenge and my taste matters

So for an upcoming wedding – We had to do a food tasting to choose the menu from the shortlisted Caterer. And to be really honest.I was tired of eating – (6 Types of starters,5 Mocktails,Indian Chaat,Tasting Molecular Gastronomy food,Nibbling on indian food and trying out the desserts ) It was an interesting evening and after the initial tasting when the couple realised we were on the same page.They trusted us to try and choose from the rest of the menu.When they couldn’t eat more.

Also the whole experience was wonderful with the complete banquet space being booked solely for the client & us. The set up too was done like what the actual one would be like.

This particular experience has been one of the most interesting one so far. And as they truly say – People in the wedding will remember the food & the experience the most.Rather than anything else.

Food photography or food porn.

Just read an article today . About a French chef who has  been working at michelin star restaurants grenouillere restaurant la Madeleine 

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and so  I  shared this piece of news  with a few people and  there were  of the opinion . No food porn should not be banned instead they are getting benefited since there are new clients who wish to dine there .But what is the reason behind these chefs being so irritated .While they say that food porn(photo clicking sharing on internet)takes away there intellectual property ,they fear of being copied and the surprise element that remain intact isn’t there anymore for there clients ,also there aim to create special moments for clients don’t remain special anymore 
so are they  right to ban food photography ?.They also argue the behaviour of people standing on chairs and clicking photos ,disturb the atmosphere and this behaviour also makes the food go cold .And there is nothing personalised left .
should this rule pass on here in India too?