Just how trained does your palate need to be?

Just throwing in an additional two cents.......the "normal" excellent memory may not do it. What is required is a specifically sensory memory, one that makes rapid associations with past experience with aromas, flavors and textures.

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Rogov

[Jenise]

Just throwing in an additional two cents.......the "normal" excellent memory may not do it. What is required is a specifically sensory memory, one that makes rapid associations with past experience with aromas, flavors and textures.

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Rogov

Understood. And that's the kind of memory I was talking about. It's very certainly the reason my standards for food and wine became as high as they are--I wasn't born to a silver spoon, but even when I was a small child as soon as I had something better than I'd had before, I knew it. And couldn't go back.