Tasting Lab Week 1

 

Golden Egg Pink Egg Marbled Egg White egg Salmon Roe
Appearance:

Buttery, somewhat gray

Appearance:

Festive, bright, cartoony

Appearance:

Unappealing, not particularly marbled

Appearance:

Typical

Appearance:

Beautiful, salmon pink, look like pearls

Taste:

Lacking in depth of flavor

My least favorite

“local sustainable egg”

Taste:

Pickled beets, colors and associations with easter, family and celebration

 

Taste:

History with Sakuma, seemingly positive, local but “problematic history”

Chinese tradition

Taste:

Familiar, classic, American egg, lacking in history compared to others

Taste:

“Harvested from ovaries” Trigger, “The Other” in selection of eggs

Politics of caviar in Russia/ Japan

After knowing history becomes more
“Exotic” “Special”