Mixing cuisines can make your meal more scrumptious

Ever tried having Thai and Italian food together?A recent study suggests that mixing cuisines can make your meal more enjoyable to eat.

Jocab Lahne,assistant Professor at the Drexel University,in the US,and lead author of the study,tested and analysed subjects' he-donic(liking) responsesto amain dish of " pasta aglio eolio"(pasta with garlic and oil) after they had either an appetizer of Italian minestrone or Thai tom kha soup.So in one case the appetizer matched the cuisine type of the main dish and in the second was a clearly different cuisine.By introducing two versions of each soup-one good(made with better quality ingredients) and one medicore,Lahne was able to test the differences in response to the main dish depending on the soup's cuisine type and quality.

The finding suggested that subjects like the main dish and overall meal more when they had a medicore Italian soup to start.Conversely,they enjoyed the main dish and meal less when they started with good Italian soup.This effect did not occur when subjects started with Thai soup-liking for the pasta dish did not change with the Thai soup quality.

"We were investigating several aspects of contrast in resturant meals in this study.Once we found it was possible (enjoyment of an appetizer affecting overall impression or enjoyment of an appetizer affecting overall impression or ejoyment of a meal),we wanted to test if the effect still occured with soups from different cuisines as the appetizers."said Lahne.


Source:INAS

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