Black coffee and dark chocolate: changing tastes
Cold black coffee is one of those adult delights that took me till my 40s to really enjoy. Hot coffee hits the spot and keeps you going, but cold black coffee is where all the flavour is at. Like red white and dark chocolate black coffee has many hidden notes and flavour profiles, especially when you get the chance to drink it cold. This is adulting that creeps up on you, and by the time you realise just how much you enjoy the bitter things in life you realise just how over sugared most things are, to the point where I actively choose to avoid anything with sugar in these days. This evolution of my tastes is reflected in clothes, music, games, books, and many of the others things I have enjoyed over the years. While I still enjoy and appreciate all the things of my youth, the reality is that I prefer fewer, more expensive, well made things than the multiplicity of all the things that appeal to younger audiences.
Perfume is an obvious one. My mum got me into perfume when I was in my teens, she would always get half used bottles of expensive perfumes from the charity shop she worked at, the depth of scent far beyond anything cheap generic perfumes held. As I get older could afford small bottles of expensive scents, one or two bottles a year, sprayed on clothes and hair, and every time I pulled out a dress or jacket a waft of fragrance greeted me. The last time I…
