Fourth Interview Questions

My Interview 4 questions:

1. How would you define flavor?
2. What are the most important factors to flavor?
3. How important is taste when it comes to flavor? How does taste affect flavor?
4. What is the difference between flavor and taste?
5. The similarities?
6. What role does sight play in the enjoyment of food? How can you harness this to make a dish better?
7. And touch?
8. And smell?
9. And hearing?
10. If you had to rate the five senses in order of most important to least important in the enjoyment of food, what would your order be and why?
11. Describe umami as a taste. Is it important? Why?
12. What kind of role does umami play in cooking?
13. Which of the tastes is your favorite? Why? What is your favorite way to use it?
14. What is your favorite taste or flavor combination? Why? What are some examples of that combination?
15. In your opinion, what is the most surprising combination of ingredients you have worked with? What made them work well together?
16. Name two ingredients you would never put in the same dish and why.
17. How can you balance the tastes on a plate of food? That is, a main course that may have 2-3 different components making up the meal.
18. How important is the quality of ingredient you use when cooking? Does organic/free range/no additives affect the quality of an ingredient? Why?
19. What makes an ingredient high quality?
20. How do you define "natural" when talking about ingredients?
21. What are some good brands or suppliers that produce "high quality" or "natural" ingredients?
22. How can the average person incorporate natural food into their cooking?
23. How important is salt when in comes to cooking?
24. What is your favorite kind of salt and why?
25. What are your favorite seasonings? Why?
26. How do you utilize herbs in your cooking?
27. How might you alter the seasoning of a certain dish to make it reflect a different style of cooking?
28. What is the most effective way for a culinary artist to enhance the flavor of a dish? Please describe your answer and reasoning.
29. How did you develop your previous answers? Were there any movies, books, articles, or videos that helped you?

Nine of the questions above were used in my Interview 3.