Friday, July 19, 2013

Dear everyone who writes about food: Get this straight.

Palette: the board, such as the blob-shaped masonite slab used by Bob Ross, on which an artist can mix her/his paint.

Pallet: one of those wooden frame thingies on which are stacked many cardboard boxes of products so the forklift operator can move all the boxes around at once. Also useful in repurposing for gardening or building really gigantic bonfires.

Palate: the roof of one's mouth. Also, a term used in food writing in regards to matters of personal taste, or to the act of tasting in general. There may be other usages for this term, and other ways to define it. But if you're referring to taste, this is how you spell it: Palate. Not palette, and not pallet.