The Trust Your Taste workshop is a deep dive into the joys and benefits of sensory memory where we taste, write, and reflect all while slowing down and indulging in some delicious artisanal treats.

Around 80-90% of taste is smell, and our sense of smell can be our quickest link to memory. Memory is the result of using our imagination to think about, feel, and ultimately preserve the past in our mind. Therefore, spending time with food memory, in itself, is a creative act.

Memory mining through writing exercises and guided discussion can spark ideas for new projects, connect the dots in current research, lead to group bonding, and even begin a process of healing.

It is also possible that by learning how to trust our own sense of taste, we can more confidently trust ourselves in other areas of life, and we’re going to find out how together.

This is not your father’s guided wine and cheese tasting where you leave feeling like an idiot because you didn’t taste the “under-ripe strawberry and seaside grass” in the rosé like the Sommelier did. This is the guided tasting where you tell me “this cheese smells like my teenage nephew’s gym bag… but it tastes good” and we all laugh together and validate you.

By the end of this gathering, you will have a little more knowledge about wine and cheese, and lot more assurance that your experience is valid and true. 

So come with an empty stomach, and open mind, and get ready to Trust Your Taste!