{"id":4,"date":"2020-12-23T00:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T00:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/terroirw21\/?p=4"},"modified":"2021-01-03T05:07:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T05:07:06","slug":"rapid-sensory-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/terroirw21\/2020\/12\/23\/rapid-sensory-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"#0: Rapid Sensory Evaluation: Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shawnlinehan\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/454\/2020\/09\/Rapid-Sensory-UW-1024x621.png\" alt=\"Field images of tasting\n\" class=\"wp-image-7\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Culinary Breeding Networks: <a href=\"https:\/\/eorganic.info\/novic\/about\">NOVIC<\/a>,  UW-Madison&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/seedtokitchen.horticulture.wisc.edu\/\">Seed to Kitchen Collaborative<\/a>, OSU&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culinarybreedingnetwork.com\/\">Culinary Breeding Network<\/a> (photo credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnlinehan.com\/p\/client-list-and-bio\">Shawn Linehan<\/a> (top), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/diversifoodproject\/diversifood-final-congress-session-3-culinary-breeding-julie-dawson\">Julie Dawson and Lane Selman<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Film Preparation: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Set aside approximately two hours BEFORE Tuesday 9 AM each week to watch the films that will prepare you for the week&#8217;s case studies.  Complete the Film Series writing assignment as described on Canvas (and also on each winter quarter case study post).  Be prepared to screenshare your clip and your interpretation in relation to a winter quarter program question.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following fall quarter week 1 films are recommended viewing for students new to Terroir\/Meroir winter quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life with Winona LaDuke (2012, 16 min).&nbsp; TEDxTC&nbsp; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pHNlel72eQc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pHNlel72eQc&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>A Look at The Cooking Gene with Michael Twitty, video embed titled \n\u201cA Feast of African-American Culinary Contributions,\u201d Thomas Jefferson \nMonticello website. (2017, 7 min) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/blog-and-community\/look-cooking-gene-michael-twitty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/blog-and-community\/look-cooking-gene-michael-twitty&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&#8220;A Matter of Taste,&#8221; episode of <em>Food:\u00a0 A Delicious Science<\/em>. PBS (2017,  55 min). Available on Evergreen Library\u2019s streaming service, Films on  Demand. (Go to the Library homepage, scroll down, and link through to the streaming service, &#8220;Films On Demand.&#8221;\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Tasting Lab: Rapid Sensory Evaluation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dawson.horticulture.wisc.edu\/dawson-cv\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/454\/2020\/09\/Patrick-MS-Agroecology.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8\" width=\"206\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Patrick Merscher, MS Agroecology, UW-Madison, 2020 (photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/dawson.horticulture.wisc.edu\/dawson-cv\/\">Dr. Julie Dawson\u2019s UW website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrick Merscher, Evergreen grad and recent MS grad from UW-Madison,  introduced us to the role of taste in the relationships among  seed savers-plant breeders, farmers-growers-producers,  cooks-chefs, and  eaters-consumers.  The hyphens (-) between these word choices are  related to the question mark (?) in our program\u2019s title!  Note: In an ideal world students repeated t<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodmedia\/2020\/09\/15\/1-rapid-sensory-evaluation\/\">he sensory evaluation calibration protocol<\/a> of  this lab every other week of fall quarter, which means students learned how  to use WordPress to add 4 posts to their own #1 page.  Students new to T\/M winter quarter are required to become familiar with the following reading and rapid sensory practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Required Reading: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/454\/2020\/09\/An-Introduction-to-Flavor-and-its-Evaluation-for-Crop-Scientists_TESC_Sept2020.pdf\">An Introduction to Flavor and its Evaluation for Crop Scientists<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Lab Practice and Resources: <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4>i) Basic Flavor and Intensity Calibration <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Begin by reading through this <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/terroirw21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/611\/2021\/01\/SKC_Sensory-Evaluation_TESC-1.doc\">SKC Basic Flavor and Intensity Calibration Protocol<\/a> and review the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/terroirw21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/611\/2021\/01\/SensoryTestForm_blank_TESC-1.doc\">Sensory Test Form<\/a>. Take notes, including questions, list of words you don\u2019t  know, required materials you don\u2019t yet have, procedures you don\u2019t understand, and the things that most interest and engage you.  Each of your website\u2019s Tasting Research posts should include a photo of at least 1  page of your annotated text from this or another of each week\u2019s required resources.  In <em>Tomatoland<\/em>, our first fall quarter seminar text, Barry Estabrook references a \u201cbattery of tests\u201d he took at <a href=\"http:\/\/cst.ufl.edu\/\">U of FL\u2019s Center for Smell and Taste <\/a> (147).  One test, the Power of Food Scale developed by Dr. Lowe, is included below for you, too, to utilize. Another great overview of rapid sensory evaluation that references experts you&#8217;ll soon recognize is this <em>Epicurious<\/em> article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/expert-advice\/scientists-are-breeding-growing-food-for-more-flavor-in-future-article\">\u201cEverything is Done with the Senses.\u201d<\/a> We\u2019ll explore more tasting research resources throughout the year.   Note: In an ideal world you will have assembled  the calibration lab to practice with it by completing and uploading the form several times fall and winter quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drexel.edu\/coas\/faculty-research\/faculty-directory\/Michael-Lowe\/\">Dr. Michael Lowe\u2019s Power of Food Scale<\/a> in relation to role of  \u201cembodiment, pleasure, and psychology\u201d for taste (Estabrook 147\/187)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/454\/2020\/10\/BLANK_Drexel-PFS-Copyright-and-Trademark-License.docx\">BLANK_Drexel-PFS-Copyright-and-Trademark-LicenseDownload<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>ii) Sensory Evaluation with Industry Professionals: Hops<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/terroirw21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/611\/2020\/12\/YCH-Sensory-1024x763.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10\" width=\"409\" height=\"305\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KXNvjIiFf1s\">Sensory: Flavor in Beer<\/a> YCH Virtual Harvest 2020 (Photo credit: Sarah Williams)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4>iii) Tasting Research in Literature?  <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, in addition to film, websites, books, articles, and labs another medium for tasting research is literature.  For example, check out this novella, Nobel author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasticfiction.com\/y\/mo-yan\/radish.htm\">Mo Yan\u2019s <em>Radish<\/em><\/a>.  If you\u2019re intrigued, or just need to log more hours of non-zoom work any week, check out Mo Yan\u2019s <em>Red Sorghum<\/em> (novel and film), Mo Yan\u2019s (banned novel) <em>The Republic of Wine<\/em>, and in preparation for the Lunar New Year Celebration of the Ox read Mo Yan&#8217;s bovine reincarnation in his latest, <em>Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out<\/em>.  Mark your calendar now for our Lunar New Year oolong tea tasting at noon on Friday, 12 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Foodoir: Your Story of Tasting Place<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default\"><p>\u201cThe Old South is a place where \npeople use food to tell themselves who they are, to tell others who they\n are, and to tell stories about where they\u2019ve been (xii). <\/p><p>The Old\n South is a place where food tells me where I am.&nbsp; The Old South is a \nplace where food tells me who I am. The Old South is where food tells me\n where we have been. The Old South is where the story of our food might \njust tell America where it\u2019s going (xvii).<\/p><p>\u2019We need a blueprint as individual and as a people\u2019 (11).<\/p><p>\u2018What\u2019s the best thing you ever cooked?\u2019 I asked my mother.<\/p><p>\u2018A little black boy named Michael; I cooked him long and slow,\u2019 she replied (13).<\/p><p>George Washington Carver once said, \u2018If you love something enough it will give up its secrets to you\u2019 (17).<\/p><cite>Michael Twitty, The Cooking Gene<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4>Assigned Chapters of <em>The Cooking Gene<\/em>: preface (i-xvii)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Like our program\u2019s focus on terroir\/meroir, the focus of Michael Twitty\u2019s <em>The Cooking Gene<\/em>  is food and place.\u00a0 But, for Twitty understanding the taste of place  requires being able to tell a story that locates the storyteller in  relation to food and place. <em>The Cooking Gene<\/em> as a food memoir is part of  a rapidly growing field of popular and academic interest in the  intersectional politics of food.  During fall quarter we read <em>The Cooking Gene<\/em>  as a \u201cblueprint\u201d for writing your own \u201cfoodoirs.\u201d During winter quarter as you read the foodoir of your choice (from the recommended list or chosen in consultation with the faculty) compare and contrast the story of the author&#8217;s identity as an eater with your own story of self, food, and place.\u00a0 In what ways does (and doesn\u2019t) the author&#8217;s writing  provide a blueprint for yours? What do you choose to eat and why? Who cooked you and who cooked for you?\u00a0 How has that cooking\u2014and its  history\u2013shaped your taste preferences and experiences? As you experiment  with crafting words to communicate your taste experiences be sure to  include that process in your story.  What characterizes your experience  of the relationship between your mouth as an organ of ingestion and an  organ of digestion?  How do your hands relate to your mouth and to your  keyboard?  Where, when, and how is your thinking embodied? How is your embodiment related to contemporary and historical issues of food justice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final part of your Food Media and Tasting Research post each fortnight (every two weeks or 1 foodoir post per case study) should include writing toward your own foodoir.&nbsp; Ground\/anchor your writing in relation to a specific quote (or series of quotes) from each fortnight\u2019s reading from your choice of a foodoir. &nbsp;Create your reading schedule by dividing your foodoir into 9 weeks. For example, if you&#8217;re new to the program winter quarter and choose to read <em>The Cooking Gene<\/em> you&#8217;ll need to read approximately 40 pages per week to complete the book winter quarter. You may choose to include a quote from among those the faculty provides to juxtapose along with your selection from your choice of foodoir, or not.&nbsp;&nbsp; Suggested Length:&nbsp; 100-200 words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Food as a Medium: From &#8220;You Are What You Eat&#8221; to &#8220;You Are What You Post&#8221;&#8230; About What You Eat.  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Food Media is a rapidly emerging field of study that reflects the role of media, food and the relationships between them on an over-heated planet earth.  For background and context follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodmedia\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=162&amp;action=edit\">link to Food Media resources provided fall quarter<\/a>.  For an introduction to food and popular culture, including chapters on film and speculative fiction see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/bite-me-9781847886040\/\">Bite Me<\/a> by NYU Food Studies Professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/fabioparasecoli.com\/\">Fabio Parasecoli<\/a> (an Ebook is available through our campus library). For an award winning food justice chef&#8217;s use of multiple media see the work of Michael Twitty. In his June 11, 2020 blog post on <a href=\"https:\/\/afroculinaria.com\/2020\/06\/11\/american-food-and-race-ten-things-i-learned-from-writing-and-living-the-cooking-gene\/\">Afroculinaria<\/a> Michael Twitty reflects on what he learned from \u201cwriting and living <em>The Cooking Gene.<\/em>\u201d   Please browse those ten things (pasted below).  He  concludes his post with homework for engaging with his book in a  pandemic world focused on the Movement for Black Lives.  Why do you think the following homework is what the author  assigned to readers of his website after he reflected on the dystopian world of his book\u2019s success?  Like his book, <a href=\"https:\/\/afroculinaria.com\/\">Twitty\u2019s WordPress website<\/a>, <em>Afroculinaria<\/em>, is  award-winning.  What about the Afroculinaria website inspires you to explore through the medium of your own WordPress website?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/454\/2020\/09\/10-Things-Learned-Twitty-1024x826.png\" alt=\"image of post\" class=\"wp-image-209\" width=\"735\" height=\"592\" \/><figcaption>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/afroculinaria.com\/2020\/06\/11\/american-food-and-race-ten-things-i-learned-from-writing-and-living-the-cooking-gene\/\">Michael Twitty\u2019s Afroculinaria<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/454\/2020\/09\/Twitty-Homework-1-792x1024.png\" alt=\"Twitty's homework\" class=\"wp-image-211\" width=\"724\" height=\"936\" \/><figcaption>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/afroculinaria.com\/2020\/06\/11\/american-food-and-race-ten-things-i-learned-from-writing-and-living-the-cooking-gene\/\">Michael Twitty\u2019s Afroculinaria<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Checklist for Winter Quarter Posts:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Preparatory: Browse\/watch websites and films; submit your film assignment through Canvas<\/li><li>Browse  each week\u2019s Tasting Lab and any readings.<\/li><li>Create a WordPress website during the program\u2019s media workshop using the Evergreen Baskerville Collab Alpha Sort theme and create your first post: #1 Wine.<\/li><li>Add a  COMMENT to the STUDENT URLs post that includes your name and the URL for your wordpress.evergreen website.  NOTE: Posting your name and URL to the COMMENTs at STUDENT URLs is the ONLY way we\u2019ll be able to find your work!  <\/li><li>Assemble all the required materials and set up your remote laboratory.   (Will you be working solo or with a COVID-safe pod?)<\/li><li>Have a cell phone, laptop, or camera available (check out CARES $ plus media services  support) to document your work and post photos <strong>with captions and credits<\/strong> to your website.<\/li><li>Post completed weekly tasting forms to your website.<\/li><li>Craft your own foodoir\u2013a narrative about your own self in relation to food and the taste of place\u2013by reading, annotating, and responding to the  \u201cblueprint\u201d of Micheal Twitty\u2019s <em>The Cooking Gene<\/em> or the foodoir of your choice from the list provided. <\/li><li>Add highlights from your learning regarding each component of the program each fortnight for the corresponding case study.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film Preparation: Set aside approximately two hours BEFORE Tuesday 9 AM each week to watch the films that will prepare you for the week&#8217;s case studies. 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