We trust our senses to faithfully convey information about the world around us into our brains. But the senses are fickle beasts, tricking us into seeing things, falling for optical illusions, and suspiciously blocking out the requests of our significant others. Taste is equally fallible, although often as a result of chemical interactions. In this class, we will study and taste four different compounds that have dramatic effects on taste. We will study the Szechuan peppercorn, which tastes like electricity, Gymnema, which inhibits your ability to taste sugar, and the miracle berry, which makes sourness taste sweet.

This class will be a wild journey through the alternate dimensions of flavor, where goat cheese will taste like cheesecake, candy will lose its enticing hold, and you'll feel your tongue tingle like never before. We can't guarantee that every bite will be delicious, but the sweetness of newfound knowledge will outweigh the momentary weirdness.

We’ll drink roughly the equivalent of 2.5 drinks, spread across a number of smaller cocktail tastes, along with numerous food bites, equivalent to a modest snack.

This is an in-person class limited to 10 attendees, $65/person.