Grand Sensual

November saw Salon taking a train to Grand Sensual. For your delectation we had Sara Jayne Staines OBE, known by her first name in the finest chocolate houses in the capital. She is an expert in chocolate, from its dark history to the three hundred different notes found in the cocoa bean confectionery, from cherry to orange to cloves and tobacco. Sara taught us about taste of the most sensual kind, taking us through a structured chocolate tasting, and leading us through sweet, sour, salt and bitter, in pursuit of umami, the elusive fifth taste. Does it exist? Are you sensual enough to find it?

Contemporary art dominates the city in the months of October and November as the fairs and the galleries use the darkening evenings to draw you out of the parks and into the galleries. But much as you want to indulge your artistic sensibilities, and build your collection, is this the best way to do it? Andy Marsh who created and teaches the Collecting Contemporary Art at St Martin’s College of Art explained how the art world works and how you can work with it to collect art you love, and all for less than a hundred pounds.

And the final speaker on our night at Grand Sensual was Simone Niles, singer, voice and performance coach, who has worked with Eddy Grant, Third World, Jeremy Healy and Richard Hawley. Especially for Salon, Simone used her expertise in performance coaching and NLP to show us how we can heighten our senses, getting so much more out of the world about us, making every day of a grand sensual day.


Next Salon December 8th - Iranian Nights.

Westbourne Grove Community Space

Westbourne Grove (Corner of Ledbury Road),
London

W11 2RW