The most important part of tasting is smelling.
So before, you know, you put anything in your mouth, you want to just see how close each citrus has to get to your nose before you can smell it.
This is Mandy Neglich.
Mandy's a professional taster and author of the book how to Taste.
She's also a past Sporkful guest.
You may remember her from an episode we did about her quest to become a cicerone.
Kind of like a sommelier, but for beer.
Anyway, these days, Mandy is all in on tasting, and she recently did a tasting with Dylan Thuris, host of the Atlas Obscura podcast.
I never.
I never smelled my citrus before.
Eat it.
You got to smell everything first.
It's so important.
That's why I'm like the anti lid club.
If you're ever having coffee, you got to take the lid off so you can smell it before you taste it.
So important.
Mandy and Dylan met up on Zoom.
They each came prepared with some slices of lemons and slices of clementines.
Yeah.
What should we eat first?