Palate
Meaning
The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.
Pronunciation
UK ˈpælət
US ˈpælət
Example Sentences
- [NASA] now designs menus around this blunted palate, favoring bold, well-seasoned dishes over the bland comfort food once assumed to suit a queasy stomach.
- Detachment, not a superior palate, is the skill;
- Taste early, taste cool, taste skeptically, and your cooking will improve long before your palate does.
- What you can do instead is change the ratio, and there are three reliable routes: dilute, bulk out, or distract the palate.
- Detachment, not a superior palate, is the skill; Palates are ordinary, while attention is rare.
Learn Palate in Context
What Astronauts Eat, Wear and Miss in OrbitAsk an astronaut what they miss most about [Earth], and the answer is rarely the view; It is usually a smell, a texture, or a food they took for granted. Life aboard the International Space Station re...Read story 
How Chefs Taste, and Why Amateurs Rarely DoA professional cook will spit a mouthful of soup straight back into the spoon without embarrassment, then reach for the salt. That small, unlovely ritual is the whole difference between tasting and me...Read story 
How to Rescue a Dish You Have OversaltedThere is a particular silence that falls over a kitchen when the cook tastes the sauce and says nothing. [Oversalting] is the most common disaster in home cooking, and, mercifully, one of the most fix...Read story
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