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Article: MMM: THAT ONE SOUND SAYS IT ALL.(Lifestyle)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 17, 2000
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Mmm . . . mmm.
It is a hedonistic, soothing expression that, at once, symbolizes the pleasure experienced by the one who eats and the affirmation sought by the one who cooks.
As a doting cook, I strive to elicit this response consistently.
There is a moment, after I've presented a plate and before my guest takes a bite, when my emotions swirl in eager anticipation of the mmm.
I realized I had an mmm fetish, if you will, one afternoon when a colleague gave his creamy approval of a mushroom and savoy cabbage risotto I had prepared.
I did not see his facial expression, but his mmm lingered in the air. The wave of that sound, ...