In the mood for wine: Where and how you enjoy it affects what you think

What if you had to name the best thing you've ever eaten? One favorite dish among all of the dishes you have enjoyed in your life. Think about it for a second, and pay attention to where your mind goes. Where did you even begin? A rapid-fire inventory of all the fancy restaurants you've been to? Vacation dinners? Childhood lunches? Romantic rendezvous?

I had to do it years ago, on the spot, in front of a bunch of accomplished chefs. This was in the early stages of molecular gastronomy, the cooking movement that had chefs dreaming up ways to manipulate ingredients to pleasantly trick