The Science! And The Dim Sum!
Try Some!
Women Doing Dim Sum Is How It Was Originally Done
Dim Sum‘ Literally Means ‘To Touch The Heart’. It’s A Gentle Touch. An Elegant Touch. Hence ‘Dim Sum’ Dishes Tend To Be Delicate or Bite Size Dishes, Not Heavy Meals. But They Are Plentiful. Varied And Served Continuously One After The Other. Diners Can Start Enjoying Them As Soon As They Arrive At The Table In Between Waiting For Other Dishes To Follow.
They Are Typically Steamed (In Little Round Bamboo Steamer Baskets), Shredded, Sliced, Stir-Fried , Deep-Fried or Dry-Roasted. Dumplings, Duck, Dipping Sauce, Spring Rolls, And Braised Pork And Vegetables Are Typical.
At ‘The Courtesan Brixton’ The Dim Sum Is Exceptional. “It’s Where Dim Sum Meets Drama” As They Put It @thecourtesanbrixton
It’s Also Where Executive Chef Fengjuan Xue Heads Up An All Female Team In The Modern Girl Power Kitchen.
The Dim Sum Chef Is Very Much Aware That Production of This Cusine Is Still Is A Male Dominated Culinary Arena. But Yet She’s Slowly But Surely Playing Her Part To Make Changes.
As She Has Previously, Explained During A 2017 Courtesan Menu Launch:
“As restaurants got much bigger it was felt that you needed to be really strong to move big pots of things and feed huge amounts of people, but before, in pre-Cultural Revolution China, they were run by women”
New To The Venue We Had The Bunny Buns, The Monk’s Vegetable Dumplings, The Szechuan Style Ribs (Served With A Lemon Wedge Instead of Sauce. As Sczchaun Is All About The Tongue-Tingling Taste of Spicey Chilli Peppers, Peppercorn And Garlice), And The Duck Spring Rolls With Dipping Sauce.
They Were All Darn Delicious.
And…There’s Even Jerk Chicken Dim Sum!
Now We’ve Been Initiated With These Delicious Dim Sum Delicaces We Look Forward To The Jerk Dim Sum Next Time. It’s Got To Be Done. We’ve Simply Got To Try Some.
Hammant Says: “We Marry The Flavours of Brixton With The Flavours of The Empire of China”
Wine, Women And Done!
The Wine And spirits Menu Features Drinks Produced By women or From Companies Led By Women.
A 1999 Yale university study found that women have more Tongue taste buds than men and Have a Greater Number of So-Called Supertasters (individuals With More taste buds than the normal person, Who Experience Taste Intensity of Certain Flavours two or three times Higher Than The Average Person, And Who Therefore Make Better Food And drink Surveyors, Wine Tasters And Sensory Panel members.
Hammant Questions Therefore Why There Are More Male Chefs And Wine And Alcohol Producers Than Men. He’s Dedicated To The Cause As He Previously Explained When He And His Wife Launched The Female Led Drinks Menu Back In 2017;
“When I told suppliers I wanted only wines from female-led companies they said it couldn’t be done. It took a year to put the wine list together, and another six months for the spirits.”
Hammant Also Revealed At The Time Brands whose Leaders, distillers, Producers, or super-tasters include Women Are Hendrick’s gin @henricksGin, Cutty Sark @cuttySark and Famous Grouse @theFamousGrouse.
Varioius Other Studies And Organisations Have Progressed Beyond The 1999 Yale University School of Medicine Findings Regarding Super-Tasters (So Called By Dr. Linda Bartoshuk Who Conducted The Experiment And Coined The Phrase). Her Key Finding Was That 35 percent of women were supertasters, compared with just 15 percent of men And Supertasters Have Over A hundred times more taste buds per square inch than do regular tasters.
A 2008 Study By The University of Copenhagen Also Made Similar Findings. And A 2014 Study By Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro University Found That The Female Olfactory Bulb (The Brain’s Sense of Smell Centre, Which Contains Sensory Neurons And Receptors) Has 43% More Cells The Male Olfactory Bulb.
In 2019 The Specialist Food And Drink Sensory Consultancy Agency ‘Sensory Value’ Outlined That Its Two Sensory Panels Were Made Up Entirely of Women, In Recognition of These Studies. And That That These Studies Had Been Referenced At A Conference Held By The UK Institute of Food Science And Technology. SensoryValue.Com
The UK Institute of Food Science And Technology Has A ‘Sensory Science Group’ Dedicated To Such Considerations, Progress And Development’. And It Is Live To The Importance of There Being More Women In STEM (Science, Technology, Enginering And Maths) ifst.org
The Existence of This (Independent) Institute And The ‘Sensory Science’ Work It Does Helps Highlight Just How Important And Forward-Thinking The Female Focused Courtesan Drinks Menu And Dim Sum Studio Is.
Every Wednesday They Hold A Women And Wine Night Where Select Dishes Are Paried With Select Complimentary Wines.
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