Food Station Suggestions

Food stations are a fun way to get your guests to mingle. Generally food stations offer a single type of food like seafood or a particular cultural theme like Middle Eastern
. Choose several to give your guests a variety of tastes and perhaps the chance to try something new!

Seafood Tower

King Crab Legs
Grilled Oysters
Jumbo Shrimp
Maryland Blue Crab Cocktail
Grilled Octopus
Seaweed Salad with Mignonette, Cocktail Sauce, and Chive-Garlic Aioli

Spice Road – Middle Eastern Street

Lamb Kofta
Chicken Shawarma
Tabbouleh with Parsley, Mint, Lemon and Tomatoes
Za’atar Grilled Halloumi

Love Philly

Miniature Philadelphia Cheesesteaks with Sautéed Onions, Peppers and Ketchup
Porchetta Sandwich with Provolone, Broccoli Rabe
Italian Market Caesar with Parmigiano, Focaccia Croutons, and Long Hots
Soft pretzels with Yellow Mustard

Our Food

Entertaining Tip

BY STEVE POSES

A Vocabulary of Taste

The richer your vocabulary of flavors, the richer your ability to taste ingredients
. The physiology of taste gives us the five basic flavors: sweet, sour, salty, hot, spicy. But associative words enable us to understand taste through other vocabularies. There’s the music of taste: bass and treble notes, staccato, quick, slow, lazy. Colors: pastels and primaries, especially red and green. Garden: fruity, earthy, herbaceous, grassy. Shape: big, high, low, sharp, smooth, mellow. Texture: crisp, soft, creamy, voluptuous. Art history: classic, rococo, baroque, impressionistic, postmodern, deconstructivist. Personality: intense, relaxed, casual, accommodating, confrontational, aggressive. You can also think about food in dimensions along a set of taste descriptions. No fragrance to fragrant. Sweet to dry. Soft acid to puckering. Quiet, unassuming presence to explosive or full presence. Straightforward to complex flavor. Delicate to dank flavor. Brief aftertaste to pervasive, lingering flavor.