Explore the Fifth Dimension of Taste: UMAMI
Join us for a social Saturday afternoon, with our chefs and food professionals, to talk about what makes great food so delicious.
In this first session, you will taste one of Chef Paolo‘s, of AMA Ristorante, umami creations, and our very own Walter Kern has made a delicious umami “bomb”to taste and discuss.
Join us as we journey through ‘deliciousness’. These sessions will show how-to build layers of flavour to create a complexity of taste. Market visits, insider chef’s tips, food scouting, will aid to reinforce the basic foundational knowledge of umami. Open dialogue with professionals will facilitate understanding from the exchange of contacts and lists of ingredients to help create new taste profiles.
The sessions will have accessible ingredients and include creative sensory activities. Practical tasting sessions will always be a part of every meeting. These sessions are a guide to building sensory vocabulary to describe your personal impressions of umami.
Explore the spectrum of umami and find ways, and ingredients to make food more delicious. Learn how to build a more delicious and flavourful taste pantry in your home, and learn the secrets of what is your personal idea of deliciousness.
Workshops
Session 1 – Introduction to Umami
Explore the taste spectrum of umami.with our chefs and food professionals. A guide to the building blocks of taste. You will give an insight on how to unlock and understand your ownpersonal idea of deliciousness.
Glass of wine, delicious nibbles, interesting conversation, lots of fun, all included in the price.
Session 2 – Everyday Umami (date to be announced)
Journey through the complexity of umami around the world. A hands-on approach to the everyday ingredients of umami, and how to build flavours for your idea of delicious foods.
Session 3 – Umami Bomb (date to be announced)
The ultimate goal in understanding the power of umami. This is a creative session in understanding how to boost flavour with simple techniques using everyday ingredients learned from the previous sessions.
Details
Session 1 – Introduction to Umami
Date: 18 May 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 3-5pm
Venue: AMA Ristorante, 25/F, 208 Johnston Road,Wan Chai
Cost:
- HKD150 for Slow Food members
- HKD250 per person for non-members, includes 1 year membership to Slow Food
- Free for members of the Slow Food Cook’s Alliance in Hong Kong
This event is first-paid, first-served. Those who register without making payment risk forfeiting their spots. For those who have paid but wish to withdraw, refund is not available unless there are special circumstances.