A mortar

Material:

Bronze

Description:

The mortar was mostly used for grinding spices

Size:

Weight approx. 3 kg

Age:

150 years

Method of acquisition:

Family’s inheritance

Item owner, age and purchase:

Gero Angleitner

, 60,

Maribor

Date of completion:

16. 4. 2024

Story:

A mortar was most often used for grinding spices.

Gero Angleitner

A mortar

Material:

Bronze

Description:

The mortar was mostly used for grinding spices

Size:

Weight approx. 3 kg

Age:

150 years

Method of acquisition:

Family’s inheritance

Item owner, age and address:

Gero Angleitner

, 60,

Maribor

Date of completion:

16. 4. 2024

Story:

A mortar was most often used for grinding spices.

We invite you to summon the muses to the Museum of Flavors by thinking about the flavors in your life—at and away from the table; and remember the moments you associate with a particular taste.

Colors

Tastes in correlation with colors carry a certain logic of bipolarity in the sense that they are polarized into opposites. Thus, sweet correlates with salty, sour with bitter, and umami with kokumi.

dr. hc Vojko Pogačar, academic painter

Music

First, we chose the instruments: for the "salty" guitar (Astrid Kukovič), for the "bitter" piano (Sašo Vollmaier), for the "sour" harmonica (Dominik Cvitanič), for the "burning" violin (Andreja Klinc) and for the "sweet" flute (Asia Grauf). Melodies were created spontaneously. "Bitter" improvisations are low and legato, "salty" more decisive, articulate, "sour" high and dissonant, while "sweet" ones are unison, slow and soft.

Asja Grauf, professor of flute

ABOUT THE MUSEUM OF TASTE

An important mission of modern museums is to connect the past with the present, implement new approaches for the cultivation of new generations and work in favor of culture and society in general. We invite you to read the personal stories of people who have contributed their objects to the Museum of Taste, and at the same time let this be an invitation to participate in the project yourself.