Baltimore's Mansion
“This is how he was engaged when our school had “What Does Your Father Do?” Day when I was twelve, and each of us spent a day on the job with our fathers.
My father and several others sat at a table for the whole day tasting fish, using spit buckets the way television actors making food commercials do. Between tastes, they gargled palate-cleansing water, which they likewise spat into the buckets. A woman circulated constantly, refilling their glasses, a jug of water in each hand. In a little kit...chen just off the lab, a small assembly line of men and women wearing plastic caps bent over boilers, prepared the fish, took paper plates from the stacks inside the door and put on each plate one square inch of fish, which were then conveyed to the tasters by a procession of servers.
When the plates were put in front of them, the tasters first rubbed a morsel of the cod between their thumbs and index fingers. Then they smelled it, bending their heads to the plates. Finally they tasted it and silently recorded their grades on a kind of scorecard.MoreLess
My father and several others sat at a table for the whole day tasting fish, using spit buckets the way television actors making food commercials do. Between tastes, they gargled palate-cleansing water, which they likewise spat into the buckets. A woman circulated constantly, refilling their glasses, a jug of water in each hand. In a little kit...chen just off the lab, a small assembly line of men and women wearing plastic caps bent over boilers, prepared the fish, took paper plates from the stacks inside the door and put on each plate one square inch of fish, which were then conveyed to the tasters by a procession of servers.
When the plates were put in front of them, the tasters first rubbed a morsel of the cod between their thumbs and index fingers. Then they smelled it, bending their heads to the plates. Finally they tasted it and silently recorded their grades on a kind of scorecard.MoreLess
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