The Metamorphosis Of Taste

Introduction

Although the title of this was just something that came to mind, and there is this cookery book by Atelier Crenn (the first female chef in America to earn two Michelin stars) with the same title.

This sort of stems from people avoiding me and my tastes because I am seen by many as just plain weird and strange. What this gives me is the opposite of the Midas Touch, like everything I mention or say I like for some people becomes something to avoid. I once had a website that applied affiliate links and someone I considered a friend said if he saw something advertised on my site he would look for it elsewhere and even pay more just so I didn’t get any commission, which I thought was incredibly petty but what can you do when people say that to you. I never force my presence on people, if they want to talk to me then I am usually happy to engage.

On Food

Sometimes children are incredibly picky and my eldest daughter Juliet is a perfect case in point. As a child she would eat very few foods and even when we went for pizza it had just got to be a base, cheese and ham, absolutely nothing else.

Now every Saturday on Instagram she posts her latest culinary creation , and everyone she cooks is worthy of a Master Chef place. I have included a link to her latest creation here, Sweet chilli pork with rice noodles for dinner and spring rolls with honey soy dip.

As you can see that is a lot different than what she used to eat.

On Music

As a kid I liked some good music but some absolutely terrible stuff. I remember driving my uncle mad asking him to play “Little White Bull” by Tommy Steele on his Dansette record player, though I should blame him for actually having the record. At the same time I also liked The Who, The Byrds and The Rolling Stones.

As a teenager I railed against soul and disco because I was closer to Greaser and Rockers. At college my tastes expanded significantly, loving electronic and progressive music, then there was “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer with Giorgio Moroder’s electronic backing (which actually was an accident, the thing that makes it is the slight delay echo, and that was not intentional. Without it it would have been pretty boring) , and that was Disco but Electronic , it put a lot of people in a quandary.

I have written about this elsewhere but now my tastes range across most of the musical spectrum though I still can’t think of a “Happy Techno” song that I would listen to , and that genre still annoys me slightly.

Though I don’t have the soundtrack , I love that “Saturday Night Fever” includes a Dico take on Modest Moussorgski’s “Night On Bare Mountain” and his “Pictures At An Exhibition” was recorded by Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Newcastle and I was a great fan of theirs.

So my musical appreciation has grown and changed, and while I have dropped the ones that were a bit not good I do believe my taste has evolved and metamorphosed into something far better and more appreciative.

A Taste Conclusion

Everything about us can change, our appearance , our attitudes, our tastes and it is up to us to try and improve everything where we can. I know people will still see me as weird, but maybe one day they may realise that my “Weird” is actually something interesting and worth investigating.