Ya Gotta Taste This

There are more than three senses.  Yet there are only three sensory blogs on my list of non-Bucket-List lists.  Sight, sound, and smell have been covered already.  Time now for the all-important taste factor.  No, this will not be a Fear Factor-type list of tastes.  Just things to taste before I die.

• The best cup of coffee.  Check.  Already done.  At a breakfast shack in Destin, FL, on the last day of a girls' weekend.
• Champagne at my daughters' weddings.
• Perfectly sautéed soft-shell crabs.  Check.  That was the main course at a dinner party at chez Gaelic.
• Blood pudding in Scotland.  Haggis can be quite good if made by someone who knows how.  Unfortunately, on our holiday in Scotland, our innkeepers didn't serve blood pudding.
• The fruits of my gardening labor.  Last year's garden produced: beets, carrots, onions, leeks, spinach, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, corn, strawberries, and figs.  For this year, add to that okra, eggplant, watermelon, raspberries, potatoes, garlic, zucchini, and three types of winter squash.
• Acacia honey with bread at an inn on Lake Como.
• Sauteed fiddlehead ferns.
• Blinis and caviar after touring the Hermitage.
• The perfect crème brûlée.  It's all in how the sugar is burnt.
• S'mores dark chocolate pudding.  Check.  This was the dessert for a private Valentine's Day dinner at chez Gaelic.

Guessing at things to taste before I die is difficult.  How does one know about all the different flavors in the world until one is exposed to them?  My eyes, and mouth, will be open for new taste adventures.  But no shots of horse semen.