Plate IV · eight things
Taste
Eating and drinking where it comes from. The Taste chapter is plate IV of Globestamp’s bucket list: eight things to do, 1 of which tick themselves from your photos. Tick all eight and its plate is pressed in foil.
- Eat your way through a city on a food tourA food tour is a few hours on foot with a local guide who knows which stall makes each dish properly, so you taste eight or ten things you would never have ordered alone.Yours to tick · Easy to start
- Cook a local dish with a localCooking a local dish with a local means an afternoon in a kitchen, often a family’s, learning a recipe the way it is really made, then sitting down to eat it together.Yours to tick · Takes some planning
- Shop a market abroad and bring something homeShopping a market abroad means buying something you will use at home, a spice, a tea, a bowl, a scarf, from the person who sells it every day.Yours to tick · Easy to start
- Taste wine where it growsTasting wine where it grows means standing among the vines, then drinking what they make in a cellar a few steps away, often poured by the people who made it.Ticks itself from your photos · Easy to start
- Have afternoon tea somewhere grandAfternoon tea somewhere grand means a pot of tea, sandwiches, scones and small cakes on a tiered stand, served slowly in a palm court or a hotel lobby built to impress.Yours to tick · Easy to start
- Have dinner on a rooftopDinner on a rooftop is a meal with the city laid out around you: the sky going orange, then the lights coming on below.Yours to tick · Easy to start
- Pick your own: berries, flowers or applesPicking your own means a morning on a farm or in a forest filling a basket with strawberries, apples, cherries or flowers, and eating the first few before you’ve paid.Yours to tick · Easy to start
- Eat something you can’t nameEating something you can’t name means pointing at a dish you don’t recognize, in a place where you can’t read the menu, and eating it anyway.Yours to tick · Takes some planning