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Mexico-Blind Dining
Mexico City, Mexico - June 8, 2019 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of chefs preparing dishes for Blind Dinner Experience
2. Various of customers enjoying meal, dining experience
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriela Ortega, customer, The Blind Dinner Experience (starting with shot 2/ending with shot 4):
"It makes you concentrate far harder on flavors, in order to decipher what the food is, which we often rely on our sight alone to do."
4. Various of customers enjoying meal
5. Rodrigo Marquez, owner of The Blind Dinner Experience, speaking to reporter
6. Sign of restaurant
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rodrigo Marquez, owner, The Blind Dinner Experience (starting with shot 6/ending with shot 10):
"We focus on wine pairings, with a different glass for each course - seeking the perfect match between the what you eat and drink."
8. Chef cooking
9. Dishes
10. Wine glasses
11. Various of customers being briefed, entering restaurant in blindfolds
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Arturo Campos, customer, The Blind Dinner Experience (starting with shot 11):
"We so often take our sight for granted, and forget that there are people who aren't as fortunate, and who don't have the visual senses as we do."
13. Various of Juan Saavedra, advocate for the blind, speaking with woman on street
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Saavedra, advocate for the blind (starting with shot 13):
"What we have to do is make people with visual impairments visible. It sounds bad saying that we have to integrate them into our society, because they are already present, but so often they are simply invisible to us."
15. Various of customers during dining experience
In an era of exquisitely-presented fine dining, one Mexican restaurant is instead looking to heighten the senses and test the taste buds of customers with a blindfolded dining experience.
The restaurant in Mexico City is offering the Blind Dinner Experience, which sees customers eating empty forkfuls, knocking over crockery, and discerning what sort of wine they are drinking by listening to it all while trying to consume four-course gourmet meal.
"It makes you concentrate far harder on flavors, in order to decipher what the food is, which we often rely on our sight alone to do," said Nicodemus Setshedi, a customer.
The idea behind the blind dining restaurant is that through the deprivation of sight, diners' senses of smell and taste are heightened. And when a person doesn't know what they are being served in advance, dinner becomes a sensory experience quite unlike any other.
The restaurant was established by a former sommelier named Rodrigo Marquez.
"We focus on wine pairings, with a different glass for each course - seeking the perfect match between the what you eat and drink," said the blind dining restaurant owner.
There has been a steady rise in the dark dining trend over the past decade with the concept stemming from Switzerland, to Germany, to Canada and the United States.
Beyond a culinary experience, the project also seeks to raise awareness for those who are truly blind - a segment of Mexican society that often feels marginalized.
"We so often take our sight for granted, and forget that there are people who aren't as fortunate, and who don't have the visual senses as we do," said Arturo Campos, a client at Blind Diner.
Juan Saavedra, an advocate for the blind in Mexico City, says any effort that brings greater awareness of the disability is important.
"What we have to do is make people with visual impairments visible. It sounds bad saying that we have to integrate them into our society, because they are already present, but so often they are simply invisible to us," he said.
While blind dining may be a culinary adventure in itself, its founder says a greater empathy for the visually impaired makes his events even more worthwhile.
Mexico-Blind Dining
Dateline : June 8, 2019
Location : Beijing,Mexico
Duration : 2'03
Mexico City, Mexico - June 8, 2019 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of chefs preparing dishes for Blind Dinner Experience
2. Various of customers enjoying meal, dining experience
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriela Ortega, customer, The Blind Dinner Experience (starting with shot 2/ending with shot 4):
"It makes you concentrate far harder on flavors, in order to decipher what the food is, which we often rely on our sight alone to do."
4. Various of customers enjoying meal
5. Rodrigo Marquez, owner of The Blind Dinner Experience, speaking to reporter
6. Sign of restaurant
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rodrigo Marquez, owner, The Blind Dinner Experience (starting with shot 6/ending with shot 10):
"We focus on wine pairings, with a different glass for each course - seeking the perfect match between the what you eat and drink."
8. Chef cooking
9. Dishes
10. Wine glasses
11. Various of customers being briefed, entering restaurant in blindfolds
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Arturo Campos, customer, The Blind Dinner Experience (starting with shot 11):
"We so often take our sight for granted, and forget that there are people who aren't as fortunate, and who don't have the visual senses as we do."
13. Various of Juan Saavedra, advocate for the blind, speaking with woman on street
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Saavedra, advocate for the blind (starting with shot 13):
"What we have to do is make people with visual impairments visible. It sounds bad saying that we have to integrate them into our society, because they are already present, but so often they are simply invisible to us."
15. Various of customers during dining experience
In an era of exquisitely-presented fine dining, one Mexican restaurant is instead looking to heighten the senses and test the taste buds of customers with a blindfolded dining experience.
The restaurant in Mexico City is offering the Blind Dinner Experience, which sees customers eating empty forkfuls, knocking over crockery, and discerning what sort of wine they are drinking by listening to it all while trying to consume four-course gourmet meal.
"It makes you concentrate far harder on flavors, in order to decipher what the food is, which we often rely on our sight alone to do," said Nicodemus Setshedi, a customer.
The idea behind the blind dining restaurant is that through the deprivation of sight, diners' senses of smell and taste are heightened. And when a person doesn't know what they are being served in advance, dinner becomes a sensory experience quite unlike any other.
The restaurant was established by a former sommelier named Rodrigo Marquez.
"We focus on wine pairings, with a different glass for each course - seeking the perfect match between the what you eat and drink," said the blind dining restaurant owner.
There has been a steady rise in the dark dining trend over the past decade with the concept stemming from Switzerland, to Germany, to Canada and the United States.
Beyond a culinary experience, the project also seeks to raise awareness for those who are truly blind - a segment of Mexican society that often feels marginalized.
"We so often take our sight for granted, and forget that there are people who aren't as fortunate, and who don't have the visual senses as we do," said Arturo Campos, a client at Blind Diner.
Juan Saavedra, an advocate for the blind in Mexico City, says any effort that brings greater awareness of the disability is important.
"What we have to do is make people with visual impairments visible. It sounds bad saying that we have to integrate them into our society, because they are already present, but so often they are simply invisible to us," he said.
While blind dining may be a culinary adventure in itself, its founder says a greater empathy for the visually impaired makes his events even more worthwhile.
ID : 8112897
Published : 2019-06-10 17:17
Last Modified : 2019-06-11 20:52:00
Source : China Global Television Network (CGTN)
Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
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