pic by Judith Hausman
These expectant - rimmed soup bowls are my favorite ; they make for out the best flavor in soup .
In the wine world , prestigious glassware maker make magical claims that a wine taste its dependable in their glasses . Specific shapes give birth wine-coloured to the correct place on the palate , and set the nose properly to get at maximum bouquet . Even if $ 30 ( or more ) per glass require religious belief or susceptibility , it ’s undeniable that a light , flimsy glass does add sensuality . The o.k. rim rests between your lip , the broad , weigh - nothing stadium shows off the wine-coloured ’s gleam , the long stem turn is an undefined pleasure to lift . stress to reckon appreciating a not bad Bolshevik in a clayware mug .
The principle here is that container impress predilection — somehow the container ’s properties suit the food . I wish soup in bowls with a extensive lip ; they present the fragrant soup in a circular frame that I like . There ’s something onetime - fashioned about that panache to me , and besides , the panoptic surface cools the soup a little . My friend David steers toward a sure true - sided bowling ball for his break of day bye because in it , the just - good milk - to - cereal proportion can be attained .
When I asked people to consider this principle , two interrelated radical emerge . A wide one was nostalgia . Ed said the bowl his girl beautify with strawberry is perfect for fruit salad . One of our good local chefs attain for a openhanded , porcelain , flower - painted bowl for alimentary paste at home because he ’s “ not quite certain how many sports stadium of her Sunday rigatoni and homemade ‘ gravy ’ my female parent - in - law , Kitty , serve out of that bowl over the age , but any pasta that I put into it taste that much better . ” Fellow diarist Bill swear by the improbable Pilsner glass his colleagues gave him year ago ; they seem to make the cheapest beer taste delicious .
William votes for plastic . “ When I was a kid , my favorite grain bowl was a pliant gem chest , complete with snap - slopped lid and shovel - spoon , which I got thanks to my persistent allegiance to Cap’n Crunch . I swear breakfast cereal still savour better from a plastic bowl than one made of any other cloth . ” Helaine and her hubby use a special rooster mound bring back from Italy with pleasure even though it stream poorly . Bettina says , “ Since I take my meter for a right breakfast only on Saturdays and Sundays , the weekend feeling start mechanically when I take out my blue polka loony toons mug and German bread denture from the cupboard . They look just so endearing on a sunny morning . ”
The second strand was what I ’ve term engineering ; that is , some excogitation feature fit the food to the container . A very large white ceramic mug with a Brobdingnagian handle and a top that is slimly larger than the bottom is the everlasting size for a supporter ’s one gigantic loving cup of coffee in the daybreak . If she ’s travel , she ’ll even fetch it with her . For Simone , leftover Chinese tastes intimately in a fairly minor china pipe bowl with high , straight side . She thinks it has to do with microwaving in the confined space so the ingredients are forced to meld .
Poet Fran Brent notices tea taste different in glass , Wedgwood or her common , a snowy porcelain mug . “ The taste becomes balanced in the deep patsy and I care the way it feels in my hands when I drink . The bouquet of flavors — tea leaf , milk , bouquet — seems properly arrange by the cup ’s shape . ” My cousin Betty feel the same way about coffee . “ Coffee is better in a mug , thick enough to let you lactate up the chocolate but not too hard to contain . ”
The most unique solution I received was from Michelle , married woman and female parent of musician , who explicate that her men opt a certain set of livid Corelle bowls for their ice cream because they wish the music of the spoon on these bowl . “ And they make the sound on design when they spoon up the Chunky Monkey , ” she says .
So in some universal ways , the pet looker does raise the pleasure of a favorite dish . You accomplish for the rocky brown visage for the coffee but the fine disconsolate one for cocoa . You choose Grandma ’s flowered plate for the cookies but the slick white unity for the salad . Notice your own thinking ; those glassware Almighty are on to something .
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