My parents tell me that until I was six years old I would eat everything, but then all of the sudden I became super picky about what I was eating. This continued until about two years ago when I began trying new foods, and realizing that I liked them. Around the same time my family began watching cooking shows together. These two events sparked an interest in cooking and food for me. It amazed me that in the cooking shows, the contestants would be able to create an entirely new dish they have never made before. They somehow knew what flavors would go well together. This really intrigued me and made me want to learn about flavor palettes.
Watching cooking shows has taught me a little about flavor palettes, and it has ignited my interest. I want to learn how to balance out flavors, and what flavors work well together. In addition, I want to learn why certain flavors work well together (like balancing sour with sweet flavors) and why others don’t. And last, I want to learn why humans like certain flavors and not others.
Now that I know that I am interested in food and am willing to taste new things, I am planning to start learning about food palettes. In the last year, our family organized a couple of events in which my friends and I learned how to cook some Israeli dishes. Although I grew up in an Israeli family, I always refused to try traditional Israeli dishes, but during these cooking events I tasted everything we cooked. I liked some of the dishes and disliked others, which increased my interest in understanding what impacts a person's flavors palettes.
I want to begin taking extra-curricular classes on cooking, baking and food palettes. I also want to take some classes on chemistry and biology to understand what reactions happen in our bodies when we eat certain foods, and how that affects how we view certain flavors. I have a feeling that learning about this will be a lot of fun, and that it can lead me to an entirely new passion in my life.
In the following video, you can see me making vegetarian Kubeh, which is a traditional Israeli dish, made mostly from wheat, squash, tomato and onion. Making Kubeh is a long process and I am proud that I did it. Along with this I also learned how to use TikTok to edit the video. I found that TikTok excelled at some things but wasn't great at others. For example, the overall technology was very simple and easy to learn, but I had to try to guess where everything needed to go, and bugs caused me to lose my progress several times. Overall I found that TikTok was very good, but I think that there are probably better platforms specifically for video editing.
If you are wondering – the Kubeh was extremely tasty and although I made a lot of it – it was all gone in one meal
