It was pretty interesting. The coolest part was we did a table setting and tried a soup in two different kinds of bowls. The soup smelled different and tasted different because of the shape of the bowl. Weird huh? same with the wine glass!
See...chosing tableware DOES matter! Then we had lunch. Then at 1:30 we had an AMAZING speaker, Claude Fischler, who spoke on "Sociology of Tastes".
The english speakers in class got a break today because he spoke in english! YAH! He was brilliant and entertaining and I learned A LOT from him! I was VERY interested in the topic. Then at 4 to 5 we learned "The role of the sommelier" from Philippe Faure-Brac who happens to be Worlds Best Sommelier 1992.
He described his job and then we got to taste some wines. He also wrote some books, so I bought one of his wine and food pairing books which also had dessert pairings in it! At around 6 pm we went back to the hotel. Took a mini break and then at 7:45I met downstairs with the group to go to dinner at Le Dirigeable where we met some Alumni of the program. It was a nice dinner. We got home around 11 and then I read a bit to relax and then went to bed around 12. LONG day :)
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