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Jean B.[_1_] Jean B.[_1_] is offline
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Default Today I made my first dinner for my mother

Mark Thorson wrote:
> ImStillMags wrote:
>> On Jul 11, 7:46 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
>>
>>> I am wondering about how taste changes when people
>>> get old. Does taste diminish, so should I compensate
>>> by making food spicier? Or, should I make food more
>>> bland?

>> Are you afraid to ask her opinion. I mean, ask her how she liked
>> it.....ask her how she would have done it differently if at all.

>
> I'll ask how she liked it, but I can tell you right now
> she'll say she liked it. If I ask how it might have been
> done differently, she'll probably either mention sugar,
> MSG, or that cookbook.


Well, after she says she liked it, say you are thinking about
cooking for her more and would like to know what she likes and
dislikes, what she would appreciate the most, what she might have
done differently if she had made the dish. Hey, in days of yore,
I made up a multipage checklist about folks' food preferences.
That might have been overdoing it just a tad <g>, but surely you
can glean some useful information.

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Jean B.