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Very often, the so-called "placebo effect" can affect the taste of food - when you think that there is some ingredient in a meal, but it is not there, though you literally feel it! Remember "Michael Jordan's secret drink" in the first Space Jam? Here is something in this style. After all, making our brains believe that food is incredibly delicious is the main task of any cook. Hence the various requirements for serving, because beautiful presentation of a dish is already half the battle.
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"It's hard to give an example offhand, especially when you have hundreds and even more of these examples in your head, accumulated over the years of professional experience - and you just can't choose which one," says Roman Sardarian, a chef from Odessa, Ukraine, whom Bored Panda reached out to for comment. "However, I'll try to give probably the simplest. Kebab or barbecue. What makes this dish incredibly flavorful, while completely retaining the texture of the meat? For me, the simple answer is dried red basil, which is also sometimes called regan."
“Probably, it has happened to you that you passed by some good meat restaurant, felt that incomparable smell - and then tried in vain to recreate it at home? Well, it's all thanks to dried red basil. In fact, we first perceive food with our nose, thanks to the smell, then with the eyes - and if the aroma and appearance of the food tell us that it is tasty, then most of the work has already been done," says Roman Sardarian.
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In the end, the most important secret ingredient that can turn any, even the most clumsy cooking into an absolute triumph of taste is love. After all, when you cook with love and for someone who loves you, it completely transforms any dish, because you literally put a piece of yourself into it. As the same great Julia Child once told, "I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a Valentine as you can give."
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