emotion cookies
Emotion Cookies may look the same on the outside, but each bite reveals a different flavor — some familiar, some surprising. Emotion Cookies are baked in 11 distinct flavor profiles — from sweet and sour to metallic, fatty, spicy, and more.
Cookies suggest an edible exercise of reflecting on your own emotional landscape through taste.
As you eat them by by coffee or tea, you can let each cookie open a space for reflection in your own emotional landscape or you can start a conversation on your coffee table around your emotions.
The background story of Emotion Cookies
Failing to capture the texture and taste of the yogurt soup my mother used to make, I began searching for a new place to use mint — its essential ingredient. Admitting to myself that I had stepped outside tradition, I tried to pair mint with unlikely flavors. Letting go of the taste of home also shifted me sideways from the emotions I was used to within familiar structures.
Adding mint to tahini brought a meaningless layer that stuck to my tongue — I could neither swallow it nor spit it out. When cooked, tahini refused to cool down, and my impatience burned my whole mouth. The same impatience stopped me from weighing the sensation of chili as it passed through my throat, leading me to add far too much chili to chocolates. The chili–chocolate, whose fire never quite settled in my throat, pushed me to throw one fresh taste after another into my mouth — which is how I discovered the rather funky mix of mustard and apple.
Could I feel these tastes spreading from my mouth to my throat, my scalp, my sinuses, all the way down to my toes? Could I mimic the jealousy that seized me from head to toe in flames? Could the familiarity within an unexpected combination carry me home? Could I emulate the taste of sorrow hiding behind my anger? And if I did — would others feel it too?
Which emotion could this be?
What am I tasting here? Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, metallic, astringent, fatty, spicy, fresh, warm.
How does this taste move in my mouth, nose, throat, body?
Does it burn my eyes, make my hands sweat, wrinkle my face?
What memories come to mind? Where does this taste take me in my inner landscapes — into a pit, to a mountaintop, into water, under the sun?
Have I held an emotion in my mouth before?
When did I last feel this emotion? In which situation?
Where did this feeling start, where did it end?
What did it make me think of? How did it move me?
Did I allow myself to feel it? Did I share it with others? Did I express it?
Would I take this taste into my mouth again? And next time, how would I handle it — by sucking it slowly, chewing as little as possible, holding it longer, or washing it down with water?
photo: doğa çal & AI edited
