Dans Le Noir is a sensory culinary experience where you are served in pitch darkness. I was recommended to go and experience this restuarant however the meal was was out of my budget and thought that it would be best to try it at home. Telling the cooker of my house not to tell me whats on the menu up until the meal, I blinded folded myself and walked carefully to the dinner table. I knew where everything was having done this everyday but I felt I was more cautious to where I sat and where my cuttlery were. I asked for my soup to be poured being afraid I was to spill it and asked for food to be placed in my bowl before me. I then just continued eating but became more aware of the taste and recognising carefully which food was what. It was quite frightening to trust the person putting food in my bowl because I don't know whether I would like it or not. I personally do not enjoy eating prawns at all and one was placed in my bowl without me knowing and I immediately rejected it in my mouth because obviously my tongue did not recognise the taste. I couldn't focus on socialising around the table as much because I was more focused on imagining my whereabouts and where half my cuttlery was... especially my tissue! After the end of the meal I got up to get my fruit as I would normally do I selected an apple (usually I would opt for an orange but I imagined the difficulties of peeling an orange may be).
The whole blinded dinner experience allowed me to understand the difficulties of loosing your sight and how things could maybe be adapted. I could of requested my plate of food to be placed in a specific orderon a plate rather than a bowl, I could of have someone explain what was on the table rather than just eating and guessing. I also could of peeled the orange and making sure I use my hands to feel every bit of the orange that the skin has been removed. I think after this experience I might try and make breakfast, but not blind folded but with goggles that illustrate what some visually impaired people see through their eyesight.
